ebediyen

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ابدیاً (ebediyyen),[1] from Arabic أَبَدِيًّا (ʔabadiyyan) adverbial accusative of أَبَدِيّ (ʔabadiyy, “eternal”), from أَبَد (ʔabad, “eternity”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy, nisba suffix).[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.beˈdi.jɛn/, /e.beˈdiːjɛn/
Hyphenation: e‧be‧di‧yen

Adverb

ebediyen

forever, eternally
Synonyms: sonsuza kadar, sonsuza dek, daima, (dated) ilelebet
(in negative sentences) never
Synonyms: hiçbir zaman, asla, katiyen

Related terms

References

Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “اَبَدِیاً”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 65
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ebet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

“ebediyen”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ebediyen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1351

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