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kaldırım

Pronunciation: /kaɫ.dɯˈɾɯm/

“kaldırım” is a Turkish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. pavement, sidewalk
  2. a raised path made of rocks to prevent people walking in the dirt or mud

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قالدرم (kaldırım, “pavement, paving, paved road, enbankment, dyke, a cross”). By surface analysis, kaldır- (“to raise”) + -ım (“deverbal nominal”). Sometimes connected to Ancient Greek καλός (kalós, “beautiful”) + δρόμος (drómos, “path, road”), but according to Nişanyan this is a folk etymology.

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