çöküntü
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish چوكندی (çükündu), from the same root as çökmek (“to collapse, fall down”).
Noun
çöküntü (definite accusative çöküntüyü, plural çöküntüler)
- verbal noun of çökmek (“to collapse, give way”)
- Synonym: çökme
- debris, wreckage
- sediment, deposit
- (geology) subsidence
References
- The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, 2013, →ISBN
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “چوكندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 739