topu topu
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Reduplication of topu, from top (“anything rounded up, balled up; whole, complete; ball”) + -u (possessive suffix), literally “all of it”.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
- Generally to indicate the thing in question is little in amount; in total, in all, all in all
- approximately, more or less
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “topu topu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “topu topu”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4864