bayağı

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From bayağ +‎ -ı.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [bɑjɑˈɣɯ]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ya‧ğı

Adjective

bayağı (comparative daha bayağı, superlative ən bayağı)

  1. vulgar
  2. trite, hackneyed
  3. lowbrow

Further reading

Turkish

Alternative forms
  • (informal, texting) baya

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بیاغی (bayağı),[1][2][3] from Common Turkic *bayakı, from Proto-Turkic *baya (“previously mentioned, recent, former”) + *ok (“emphasis postposition”).[4][5][6] Cognate with Azerbaijani bayağı, Kazakh баяғы (baäğy, “same, old”), Karakhanid بَیا اُقْ (bayā oq), Uyghur بايا (baya), Uzbek boya, boyagi.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈba.jaːɯ/, (informal) /ˈba.jɑː/
  • Hyphenation: ba‧ya‧ğı

Adjective

bayağı

  1. vulgar, low, base
  2. common, ordinary, plain

Derived terms
  • bayağı bayağı
  • bayağı kaçmak
  • bayağı kesir
  • bayağılaşmak
  • bayağılık

Adverb

bayağı

  1. almost, nearly
  2. really, for real, actually
  3. considerably, pretty much, fairly

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بیاغی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 417
  2. Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 298
  3. Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “بیاغی”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 327
  4. Clauson, Gerard (1972) “baya:kı:”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 385
  5. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bAja”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  6. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bayağı”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading
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