dəli
Azerbaijani
Other scripts | |
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Cyrillic | дәли |
Roman | dəli |
Perso-Arabic | دلی |
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *dẹ̄l(b)ü- (“mad, stupid”)[1]. Cognate with Turkish deli, Uzbek telba, Turkmen däli and telbe, Tatar тилбә (tilbä, “foolish person”), Chuvash тилӗр (tilĕr, “become enraged”) etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [dæˈli]
- Hyphenation: də‧li
Adjective
dəli
- crazy, mad
- Synonym: gic
Derived terms
- dəlixana (“madhouse”)
References
- 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