kırıntı
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Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قیرندی (ḳırındı, ḳırıntı, “a fragment, fragments”),[1] from Ottoman Turkish قیرنمق (ḳırınmaḳ, “to cringe and fawn or coquet, with affected contortions of body”), from Ottoman Turkish قیرمق (ḳırmaḳ, “to break, to crack, to split, to fold, to kill in large numbers”), from Proto-Turkic *kïr- (“to dig, to scratch”),[2] morphologically kır- + -ın + -tı.
Pronunciation
Noun
kırıntı (definite accusative kırıntıyı, plural kırıntılar)
- A small piece broken off the whole; crumb, chip, scrap.
Declension
Derived terms
- kırıntı kütle
- kırıntılı
- kırıntılı tortul kayaç
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیرندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1506
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kır-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “kırıntı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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