üzüntü

Sentences
Meaning

Sadness, sorrow, grief.

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
ü‧zün‧tü
Pronounced as (IPA)
/y.zynˈty/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوزندی (üzendi, “care, anxiety, dejection”), from Ottoman Turkish اوزمك (üzmek, “to overstrain, to injure by over-exertion, to break down or debilitate with pain, to hurt the feelings of”), from Proto-Turkic *üz- (“to break, to hurt, to pluck”), morphologically üz- + -ün + -tü.

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