əski

Azerbaijani
Other scripts
Cyrillic әски
Roman əski
Perso-Arabic اسکی‎

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *es-(kü)[1]. Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (eski); Turkish eski, etc.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [æsˈki]
  • Hyphenation: əs‧ki

Adjective

əski (comparative daha əski, superlative ən əski)

  1. old, previous, earlier (for inanimate objects)
    əski əlifba ― old alphabet
    Synonyms: köhnə, sabiq
    Antonyms: təzə, yeni
  2. worn-out
    əski paltar ― worn-out clothes
  3. out-of-date, obsolescent
    Synonym: köhnə
    Antonym: yeni
  4. longstanding, old (e.g. of relationships)
    əski dost ― an old friend
  5. ancient
    Synonym: qədim
    Antonyms: müasir, çağdaş

References
  1. Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*es-(kü)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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