müstehzi

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مستهزی (müstehzi),[1][2] from Arabic مُسْتَهْزِئ (mustahziʔ), active participle of اِسْتَهْزَأَ (istahzaʔa).[3]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mys.tehˈzi/
  • Hyphenation: müs‧teh‧zi

Adjective

müstehzi

  1. mocking
    • 1938 July 16, Niyazi Ahmet, “Dersimli Kız”, in Vakit, page 2:
      Kız gülümsiyordu. Dudaklarında müstehzi bir kıvrılış vardı.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. sarcastic

Declension

Adverb

müstehzi

  1. In a mocking, cynical manner.

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مستهزی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1851
  2. Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مستهزی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1165
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müstehzi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • müstehzi”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “müstehzi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3407
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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