bil-
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bil"
Maltese
Pronunciation
Preposition
bil-
Derived terms
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بالـ (bil-), from the combination of Arabic بِـ (bi-) + اَلْ (al-).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Suffix
bil-
- Derives adverbs mainly from nouns, in some cases from adjectives or pronouns.
- bil- + akis (“reflection, effect”) → bilakis (“on the contrary”)
- bil- + fiil (“work, deed, verb”) → bilfiil (“in fact, actively, effectively”)
- bil- + mukabele (“return, response”) → bilmukabele (“as a response, likewise, same to you”)
- bil- + (archaic) hassa (“feature, trait”) → bilhassa (“especially, specifically”)
- bil- + umum (“everybody”, pron.) → (dated) bilumum (“all, all of”)
- Sometimes the "-l" is assimilated to the consonant that follows it, in accordance with Arabic rules of derivation.
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bi-¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 592