kabaca

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قباجه (ḳabaca),[1] from قبا (ḳaba),[2] equivalent to kaba (“rude, rough, unrefined, puffy”) +‎ -ca.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈba.d͡ʒa/
Hyphenation: ka‧ba‧ca

Adjective

kabaca

fairly large and plump

Adverb

kabaca

rudely, impolitely, brutishly
roughly, approximately, crudely

Related terms

kaba kuvvet
kaba saba
kabadayı
kabakulak
kabalık
kabataslak

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قباجه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1430
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

“kabaca”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kabaca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2303

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