hayli
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish خیلی (haylı), from Persian خیلی (xeyli), from Arabic خَيْل (ḵayl, “herd of horses”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /haj.li/
Adjective
hayli
- much
- many of; a crowd of
- 1937 November 13, Kandemir, “Antakya... ve ötesi..”, in Cumhuriyet, page 5:
- Asi nehri üzerindeki köprü bir hayli kalabalıktı.
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Adverb
hayli
- quite; well; very
- Synonym: oldukça
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hayli”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1915
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خیلی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 878
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hayli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN