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delice

Pronunciation: /deˈli.d͡ʒe/

“delice” is a Turkish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. Behaving excessively, a little crazy.

adverb

  1. insanely, madly

noun

  1. A wild plant of the Poaceae family with poisonous seeds; Lolium temulentum, darnel, false wheat.
  2. An olive tree that is not grafted.
  3. A hawk or a sparrow hawk.

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دلیجه (delice), from دلی (deli) or دلو (delu), equivalent to deli (“crazy, mad, insane”) + -ce.

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