dəli

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic дәли
Perso-Arabic دلی‎

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [dæˈli]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: də‧li

Adjective

dəli

  1. crazy, mad
    Synonyms: gic, divanə, məcnun

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Lezgi: дели (deli)

References
  1. 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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