gelin
Meaning
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- A woman dressed up and prepared for her own wedding or who has just married; a bride.
- A woman who has joined a family through marriage; a daughter-in-law, sister-in-law or niece-in-law etc. depending on the speaker's perspective.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ge‧lin
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ɟeˈlin]
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish كلین (gelin, “bride, daughter in law”), from Proto-Turkic *kẹlin (“bride, daughter-in-law”), from Proto-Turkic *kẹl- (“to come”) with the suffix Proto-Turkic *-in (“derives nouns from intransitive verbs”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰠𐰤 (kl²n²), Azerbaijani gəlin, Turkmen gelin, Kazakh келін (kelın), Kyrgyz келин (kelin), Uzbek kelin.
New
gelmek
- (intransitive) to come, move closer
- (idiomatic,intransitive) to weigh (have a certain weight)
- to pretend to not hear something despite having heard it
- to feel like doing something
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Sentences
Dadandırma kara gelin , dadanırsa yine 🔁 gelir .
🔁
Do not stutter, the black bride will come again if she haunts.
