doksan
Turkish
| 900 | ||||
| ← 80 | ← 89 | 90 | 91 → | 100 → |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | ||||
| Cardinal: doksan Ordinal: doksanıncı Distributive: doksanar | ||||
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طقسان (doksan, “ninety”) from Proto-Turkic *tokuŕ ōn (literally “nine tens”). By surface analysis, dokuz (“nine”) + on (“ten”).
Cognate with Azerbaijani doxsan, Kazakh тоқсан (toqsan), Kyrgyz токсон (tokson), Tuvan тозан (tozan), Yakut тоҕус уон (toğus uon), etc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dokˈsan/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: dok‧san
Numeral
doksan
- ninety
- doksan kere soksan yine noksan yine noksan...
- it is still not enough if you fuck for ninety times...
Further reading
- “doksan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu