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kesik

Pronunciation: /ceˈsic/

“kesik” is a Turkish word. Its 8 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. Having been cut.
  2. Short, shortened.
  3. Intermittent, discontinuous.
  4. Having spoilt, turned sour or curdled.
  5. Enamored, in love with.

noun

  1. A cut, incision, gash.
  2. A cutting, clipping from a newspaper, magazine etc.
  3. Çökelek cheese.

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كسك (kesik, “cut, cut through or off in pieces, curdled, coagulated, castrated”), from كسمك (kesmek, “to cut, to interrupt, to clot, to curdle”), from Proto-Turkic *kes- (“to cut”), morphologically kes- + -ik. Cognates with Azerbaijani kəsik, Kazakh кесік (kesik), Kyrgyz кесик (kesik), Turkmen kesik.

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