sıkıntı

Meaning

  1. Mental exhaustion, boredom, tedium.
  2. Economic or emotional distress, hardship, tribulation.
  3. A trouble, problem.

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sɯ.kɯnˈtɯ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صیقندی (sıkındı, sıkıntı, “anything expressed as juice, oil etc, temporary bodily inconvenience or pressing want, embarrassment, suffering”), from صیقنمق (sıkınmak, “to restrain, to constrain one's self”), from Proto-Turkic *sïk- (“to squeeze, to compress”), morphologically sık- + -ın + -tı.

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