dəli

Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic		дәли
Abjad		دلی

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tẹ̄l(b)ü- (“mad, stupid”).[1] Cognate with Turkish deli, Uzbek telba, Turkmen däli and telbe, Southern Altai тели (teli), Tatar тилбә (tilbä, “foolish person”), Chuvash тилӗр (tilĕr, “become enraged”) etc.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [dæˈli]
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Hyphenation: də‧li

Adjective

dəli

crazy, mad
Synonyms: gic, divanə, məcnun

Derived terms

dəlixana (“madhouse”)
dəlibəng (“datura”)

Descendants

→ Lezgi: дели (deli)

References

Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dẹ̄l(b)ü-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill

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