kaygı

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kadgu (“sorrow”).[1] Cognate with Azerbaijani qayğı, Uzbek qayg'u, Chuvash хуйхӑ (hujh̬ă, “grief, sorrow”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kɑjɡɯ]
  • Hyphenation: kay‧gı

Noun

kaygı (definite accusative kaygıyı, plural kaygılar)

  1. worry, concern, anxiety, solicitude

Declension
Inflection
Nominative kaygı
Definite accusative kaygıyı
Singular Plural
Nominative kaygı kaygılar
Definite accusative kaygıyı kaygıları
Dative kaygıya kaygılara
Locative kaygıda kaygılarda
Ablative kaygıdan kaygılardan
Genitive kaygının kaygıların

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • kaygılanmak / kaygı duymak
  • kaygılı
  • kaygılandırmak
  • kaygı vermek
  • kaygı verici
  • toplumsal kaygı

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

Yami

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 会議 (kaigi, “meeting, conference”).

Noun

kaygı

  1. meeting, conference
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