tülü
Gagauz
| Cyrillic | тӱлӱ | |
|---|---|---|
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish تولو (tülü, “hairy, feathered”), from تو (tü). Morphologically tüü + -lü
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tyˈly/
Adjective
tülü (comparative taa tülü, superlative en tülü)
Further reading
- Çebotar, Petri, Dron, Ion (2002) “tülü”, in Gagauzça-Rusça-Romınca Sözlük [Gagauz-Russian-Romanian Dictionary], Chișinău: Pontos Press, →ISBN, page 676
Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تولی (tülü), from Old Anatolian Turkish تولو (tülü, “hairy, feathered”), a derivation from تو (tü). Morphologically tüy + -lü.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tü‧lü
Adjective
tülü
Noun
tülü (definite accusative tülüyü, plural tülüler)
- a double-humped, long-haired male camel used in special wrestling competitions
- (Isparta, İzmir, Adana) male camel resulting from the mating of frankincense and common camel
- (Konya) male cattle
- (Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Adana) goat or sheep that has given birth when they were one year old
- (Bolu) a sheep that was sheared one and a half to two months ago
- (Aydın) a male camel
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tülü | tülüler |
| definite accusative | tülüyü | tülüleri |
| dative | tülüye | tülülere |
| locative | tülüde | tülülerde |
| ablative | tülüden | tülülerden |
| genitive | tülünün | tülülerin |
Further reading
- “tülü”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tülü”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “tülü”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982