sıkıntı

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صیقندی‎ (sıkındı, sıkıntı, “anything expressed as juice, oil etc, temporary bodily inconvenience or pressing want, embarrassment, suffering”)[1], from صیقنمق‎ (sıkınmak, “to restrain, to constrain one's self”), from Proto-Turkic *sïk- (“to squeeze, to compress”)[2], morphologically sık- +‎ -ın +‎ -tı.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sɯ.kɯnˈtɯ/
  • Hyphenation: sı‧kın‧tı

Noun

sıkıntı (definite accusative sıkıntıyı, plural sıkıntılar)

  1. Mental exhaustion, boredom, tedium.
  2. Economic or emotional distress, hardship, tribulation.
  3. A trouble, problem.
    Synonyms: mesele, (slang) mevzu, problem, sorun
    Sıkıntı yok! ― No problem!

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
  • sıkıntı basmak
  • sıkıntıdan patlamak
  • sıkıntılı

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “صیقندی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1202
  2. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “sık-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading
  • sıkıntı in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
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