ara sıra
Turkish
Alternative forms
- arada sırada
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آرا صره (ara ṣıra),[1][2] from آرا or آره (ara) and صره (ṣıra),[3][4] equivalent to ara (“space, place between two things, interval”) + sıra (“line, order, sequence, turn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈɾa.sɯ.ɾa/
- Hyphenation: a‧ra‧sı‧ra
Adverb
- sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time
- Synonyms: arada bir, bazen, bazı bazı, kimi vakit, kimi zaman, zaman zaman, (archaic) kâh
Related terms
- açık ara
- ara vermek
- arada kalmak
- bir ara
- o sırada
- sıra dışı
- sıra olmak
- sırası gelmek
- tam sırası
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آرا صره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 56
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آرا صره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 11
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sıra”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “ara sıra”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ara sıra”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 273
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