alaycı

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آلایجی (alaycı). By surface analysis, alay (“derision”) +‎ -cı.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧lay‧cı

Adjective

alaycı

  1. derisive, sarcastic, ironic, cynical

Further reading

  • “alaycı”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آلایجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 33a
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