sığıntı

Meaning

A person who is made to feel their stay is too much, whose presence is deemed unwelcome or unnecessary; freeloader, free rider or fifth wheel.

Hyphenated as

sı‧ğın‧tı

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɯːɯnˈtɯ/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صیغنمق (sıġınmaḳ, “to squeeze one's self into a narrow place, to take shelter in, to take refuge with”), from Ottoman Turkish صیغمق (sıġmaḳ, “to go in to be held and contained in a space or place”), from Proto-Turkic *sıġ- (“to fit, to conform by being squeezed”), morphologically sığ- + -ın + -tı.

Sentences

Ankara'da hususi bir hastane sahibi olan bir akrabamın yanında sığıntı gibi yaşıyordum.

I was living as a shelter next to a relative of mine who owned a private hospital in Ankara.