sıkıntı
Meaning
- Mental exhaustion, boredom, tedium.
- Economic or emotional distress, hardship, tribulation.
- A trouble, problem.
Concepts
Synonyms
usanç
bunalma
rahatsız etme
sakınma
tedirginlik
yürek darlığı
usanma
başağrısı
baş belası
bezginlik
can sıkıntısı
elem
Translations
Frequency
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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