ite kaka
Turkish
Etymology
From it- (“to push”) + -e (adverbial suffix) + kak- (“to push, to shove”) + -a (adverbial suffix), literally “by pushing and shoving”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iˈte.ka.ka/
- Hyphenation: i‧te‧ka‧ka
Adverb
- by roughly pushing and shoving
- (figuratively) with difficulty, laboredly
Related terms
Further reading
- “ite kaka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ite kaka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2270