kırkyılda bir

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • kırk yılda bir

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قرق ییلده بر (ḳırḳ yılda bir),[1] equivalent to kırk (“forty”) +‎ yıl (“year”) +‎ -da (locative suffix) +‎ bir (“a, one, indefinite determiner”), literally “once in/every forty years”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɯɾk.jɯɫ.da.biɾ/
  • Hyphenation: kırk‧yıl‧da‧bir

Adverb

kırkyılda bir

  1. (idiomatic) very rarely, once in a blue moon
    Synonyms: kırkyılın başı, ayda yılda bir
  2. (idiomatic) finally after a very long time
    Synonym: kırkyılın başı
  • kırk kere
  • kırkambar
  • kırkayak
  • kırkı çıkmak
  • kırkmerdiven
  • kırkyıl
  • kırkyıllık
  • yılaşırı
  • yıldan yıla

References

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرق ییلده بر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2223

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