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See also: deli

Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic дәли
Abjad دلی

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *tēlbe (mad, stupid).[1] Cognate with Turkish deli, Uzbek telba, Turkmen däli and telbe, Southern Altai тели (teli), Tatar тилбә (tilbä, foolish person), Chuvash тилӗр (tilĕr, become enraged) etc.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [dæˈli]
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  • Hyphenation: də‧li

Adjective

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dəli

  1. crazy, mad
    Synonyms: gic, divanə, məcnun

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Lezgi: дели (deli)

References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dẹ̄l(b)ü-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill