teker teker
Turkish
Etymology
Reduplication of teker, from tek (“one, only, alone”) + -er (distributive number suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /teˈceɾ.te.ceɾ/
- Hyphenation: te‧ker‧te‧ker
Adverb
- one by one, one at a time
- Synonyms: tek tek, birer birer
Related terms
- tek başına
- tek elden
- tek tük
- teke tek
Further reading
- “teker teker”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “teker teker”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4696