yalandan
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Azerbaijani[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From singular ablative of yalan.
Adverb[edit]
yalandan
- pretendingly, as to pretend, not genuinely
Further reading[edit]
- “yalandan” in Obastan.com.
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یالاندن (yalandan),[1][2] from یالان (yalan),[3] equivalent to yalan (“lie, untruth”) + -dan (ablative suffix), literally “from (the) lie”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
yalandan
- falsely, artificially, in a pretend and theatrical way
- Synonyms: yalancıktan, numaradan, (archaic) sureta
- only for show, without proper care, cursorily
- Synonyms: üstünkörü, baştan savma, eğreti
Noun[edit]
yalandan
References[edit]
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901), “یالاندن”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1535
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یالاندن سویلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1343
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “yalan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading[edit]
- “yalandan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yalandan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5173