deyil

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic дејил
Perso-Arabic دئییل‎

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *degül (“is not”).[1] Cognate with Turkish değil.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dejil/
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  • Hyphenation: de‧yil
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Adverb

deyil

  1. not (negates the verb *imək (“to be”))
    Sən xoşbəxt ola bilərsən, amma mən deyiləm.
    You may be happy, but I am not.
    Siz evli deyilsiniz bəyəm?
    Aren't you married?

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