kırkyılda bir
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Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قرق ییلده بر (ḳırḳ yılda bir),[1] equivalent to kırk (“forty”) + yıl (“year”) + -da (locative suffix) + bir (“a, one, indefinite determiner”), literally “once in/every forty years”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- (idiomatic) very rarely, once in a blue moon
- Synonyms: kırkyılın başı, ayda yılda bir
- (idiomatic) finally after a very long time
- Synonym: kırkyılın başı
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرق ییلده بر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223
Further reading[edit]
- “kırkyılda bir”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kırk yılda bir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2624