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döküntü

Pronunciation: /dø.cynˈty/

“döküntü” is a Turkish word. Its 6 meanings in English:

noun

  1. Things spilled or scattered; debris, detritus, refuse.
  2. Scrap material like paper or metal that gets spilled during production and then put back into the cycle.
  3. Useless, worthless junk, shoddy thing(s).
  4. Member(s) of the lowest class of society; mob, rabble, riffraff.
  5. Skin eruption, rash, hives.

adjective

  1. shoddy, flimsy, in bad shape

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دوكنتی (döküntü, “any fluid or loose material poured or thrown out”); morphologically dök- + -ün + -tü. Cognate with Azerbaijani töküntü.

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