şimdi

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • şindi (pronunciation spelling)
  • şindik (Kütahya, Samsun, Adana)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish شمدی (şimdi), from Old Anatolian Turkish شمدی (şimdi), itself from an earlier اوش امدی (uş imdi), from Proto-Common Turkic *oš emdi, from Proto-Turkic *em- (“now”). By surface analysis, uş +‎ imdi. Cognate with Turkmen and Gagauz şindi (“now”), Azerbaijani indi, Southern Altai эмди (emdi), Tatar инде (inde, “now”), Tuvan ам (am, “now”).

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈʃim.di/
  • (colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈʃin.di/
  • (Blacksea, Southwest Anatolia, Kütahya, Edirne) IPA(key): /ˈʃin.d͡ʒi/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: şim‧di

Adverb

şimdi

  1. now
  2. just now

Usage notes

  • In the derived terms below, and rarely otherwise, may take suffixes normally applied to nouns.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • şimdiden (“in advance; beforehand”)
  • şimdiden sonra (“from now on”)
  • şimdiki (“present; present-day; immediate”)
  • şimdilik (“at present; for now”)
  • şimdiye kadar (“until now”)

Further reading

  • “şimdi”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • “şimdi”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
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