delikanlı
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish دلیقانلی, دلیقانلو (delikanlı), equivalent to deli (“crazy”) + kan (“blood”) + -lı (“with”), literally “having crazy blood”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]delikanlı (definite accusative delikanlıyı, plural delikanlılar)
- (often a term of address) young man (an adolescent who recently got out of his childhood)
Adjective
[edit]delikanlı
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دلیقانلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 580