şirret
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish شرت (şirret), from Arabic شِرَّة (širra, “the being شَرّ (šarr, “evil”)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃiɾˈɾet/
- Hyphenation: şir‧ret
Adjective
şirret
- (colloquial) bitchy, hussy, malicious, quarrelsome, minx, shrew (someone argumentative or irritable, cheeky, rude and loud)
Derived terms
- şirretçe
- şirretleşmek
- şirretlik
Related terms
Turkish terms derived from the Arabic root ش ر ر (0 c, 2 e)
Further reading
- “şirret”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “şirret”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “şirret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük