yıkıntı

Meaning

1. Scattered pieces of a thing that collapsed or was demolished; debris, wreckage, rubble.
2. A building in a heavy disrepair; a derelict, dilapidated building.
3. Destruction, devastation.
4. (figuratively) Mental devastation.

Concepts

debris

ruin

wreckage

subsister

Synonyms

harabe

enkaz

kalıntı

ören

virane

döküntü

kaza

kırıntı

moloz

çöküntü

fiyasko

Translations

Ruine

ruine

ruina

Schutt

Trümmer

débris

ruína

ruines

ruïne

rovina

décombres

démolition

épave

ναυάγειο

Pronounced as (IPA)

/jɯ.kɯnˈtɯ/

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: ییقندی

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: ییقنمق

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: ییقمق

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish ییقندی (yıḳındı, yıḳıntı, “materials or debris from a demolished building”), from Ottoman Turkish ییقنمق (yıkınmaḳ, “to throw one's self down, to let one's self fall”), from Ottoman Turkish ییقمق (yıkmaḳ, “to pull down, to pull down, to demolish, to overthrow”), from Proto-Turkic *yïk- (“to crush, to demolish, to overthrow”), morphologically yık- + -ın + -tı.