bozuk

Meaning

Adj

1. Broken, damaged, faulty, out of order.
2. Gone bad, spoilt, rotten.
3. (figuratively) Bummed out, out of sorts, in bad mood.

Noun

1. (abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis) Ellipsis of bozuk para; change, small denominations of money, coin.
2. A long-necked lute, slightly larger than the Turkish bağlama.

Hyphenated as

bo‧zuk

Pronounced as (IPA)

/boˈzuk/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بوزق (bozuḳ) or بوزوق (bozuḳ, “broken; bad”), from Ottoman Turkish بوزمق (bozmaḳ, “to demolish, to take down, to destroy, to defeat, to rout”), from Proto-Turkic *buŕ- (“to demolish, to ruin”), morphologically boz- + -uk.

Sentences

Ankara'nın asfalt döşeli yollarına hiç benzemeyen bozuk kaldırımlı dar mahalleleri geçtim.

I passed narrow neighborhoods with broken pavements that were nothing like Ankara's asphalt paved roads.