defol
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دفع اول (defʿ ol),[1][2] from Arabic دَفْع (dafʕ), equivalent to def (“an act of pushing away, repelling, expelling”) + ol (“2nd P. Sg. positive imperative of olmak (“to be, to become”)”).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]defol
Interjection
[edit]Defol!
References
[edit]- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دفع اول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 574
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “دفع اول”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 612
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “def¹”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “defol!”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu