dalga

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish طلغه (dalġa), from Proto-Turkic *tolkun (“wave”), *talkag, *talkan.^[1][2] compare Azerbaijani dalğa and Turkish dalga.

• IPA^(key): /dɑlˈɡɑ/
• Hyphenation: dal‧ga

dalga (definite accusative dalgayı, plural dalgalar)

1. wave, ripple, a moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid

   Synonym: talaz

• Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “dalga”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 50
• Ciachir, Mihail (1938) “dalga”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 39
• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “далга”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 131

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طالغه (dalga), from Proto-Turkic *tolkun.

dalga f (plural dalgale)

1. (obsolete) a silk tunic

def=dalgaua
pl=dalgale

• dalga in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Ottoman Turkish طالغه (dalga), from Old Anatolian Turkish طلغه (dalġa), from Proto-Turkic *tolkun. Cognate with Azerbaijani dalğa.

• IPA^(key): /dɑɫˈɡɑ/

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• Hyphenation: dal‧ga

dalga (definite accusative dalgayı, plural dalgalar)

1. wave, a moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid
2. wave, a curve in a surface
3. (physics) wave, a moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
4. wave, a series of continuous curves in a surface
5. wave, the width of the hair curls
6. (informal) mockery, ridicule, derision

   Synonym: alay

7. (colloquial) shenanigans

   Synonym: dalavere

8. (slang) Intoxication, euphoria; the influence of a mood-altering drug, specifically ones such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc.
9. (slang) penis
   • 2025 July 24, @tinercimayki, X‎^[1]:

     tüm ülke dalgasını gördükten sonra erkekler

     men after whole country saw his dick

10. (informal) a temporary lover
11. (informal) a temporary love relationship
12. (figurative) a chain of important events following one another
13. thingumabob, thingamajig, thingummy, etc. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
14. (Tokat, Adana, Nevşehir) a page

    Synonyms: yaprak, sayfa

15. (Eskişehir) sorrow, sadness

    Synonym: keder

• “dalga”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dalga”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• “dalga”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982