dəyirmi

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Azerbaijani

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Etymology

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Cognate with Turkish değirmi. From Common Turkic *tegirmi, equivalent to devir- +‎ -mi. The latter suffix is unattested in other words in Turkic languages and is likely a variant of -me (as in Chagatai تیکیرمه (täyirmä)).[1]

Adjective

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dəyirmi (comparative daha dəyirmi, superlative ən dəyirmi)

  1. round, globular
  2. circular
    Synonyms: yumru, yuvarlaq, girdə

References

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  1. ^ Sevortjan, E. V. (1980) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ tjurkskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages] (in Russian), volume III, Moscow: Nauka, page 178

Further reading

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