aç biilaç
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Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- aç bîilaç (superseded spelling)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اج بیعلاج (ac bi-ilāc), from آج (ac, aç) and بیعلاج (bi-ilāc), from Persian بیـ (bê-, bi-, -less) + Arabic عِلَاج (ʕilāj, “remedy, cure”),[1][2] equivalent to aç (“hungry”) + biilaç (“remedyless, cureless”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- (dated, poetic) In a hungry and uncared-for state.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “biilaç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “aç biilaç”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aç bîilaç”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 96