değil
Meaning
-
not (negates meaning of the verb *imek)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
de‧ğil
Pronounced as (IPA)
/de.ˈjil/
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish دگل (değil), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tegül (“is not”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (tügül, “is not; not only”) (in Kul Tigin inscription); Karakhanid [script needed] (tegül, “is not”); Kazakh түгiл (tügil), Kyrgyz түгүл (tügül), Karachay-Balkar тюл (tül), Azerbaijani deyil, Bashkir түгел (tügel), Uzbek tugul.
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