deli
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]deli (plural delis)
- (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
- Delis usually offer a broader, fresher menu than fast food chains.
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
- 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
- Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.
- (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving
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Anagrams
[edit]Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Turkish deli (“mad, insane”), perhaps via Serbo-Croatian dèli (“brave”).[1] Doublet of dalia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]deli (comparative delibb, superlative legdelibb)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | deli | delik |
accusative | delit | deliket |
dative | delinek | deliknek |
instrumental | delivel | delikkel |
causal-final | deliért | delikért |
translative | delivé | delikké |
terminative | deliig | delikig |
essive-formal | deliként | delikként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | deliben | delikben |
superessive | delin | deliken |
adessive | delinél | deliknél |
illative | delibe | delikbe |
sublative | delire | delikre |
allative | delihez | delikhez |
elative | deliből | delikből |
delative | deliről | delikről |
ablative | delitől | deliktől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
delié | deliké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
deliéi | delikéi |
References
[edit]- ^ deli in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
[edit]- deli in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- deli in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]deli
- inflection of delir:
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Verb
[edit]deli (Cyrillic spelling дели)
- inflection of deliti:
Swedish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]deli c
- a simpler restaurant (selling lighter meals, for examples sandwiches and salads)
- a deli shop or deli section (at a retail store)
Declension
[edit]Declension of deli | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | deli | delin | delier | delierna |
Genitive | delis | delins | deliers | deliernas |
Etymology 2
[edit]Perhaps borrowed from Turkish deli.
Adjective
[edit]deli (comparative mer deli, superlative mest deli)
References
[edit]Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish دلی (deli), from Proto-Turkic *tēlbe (“mad, crazy”). Doublet of Tilbe. Cognate of Turkmen däli, Azerbaijani dəli, Salar delli, and Tatar тиле (tile).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]deli
Usage notes
[edit]- Like its English counterparts, deli can be used figuratively to refer to something highly unusual (either positively or negatively) or to someone afflicted with a mental condition.
Declension
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Nominative | deli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | deliyi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | deli | deliler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | deliyi | delileri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | deliye | delilere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | delide | delilerde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | deliden | delilerden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | delinin | delilerin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Swedish: deli
Further reading
[edit]- “deli”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]deli
Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdɛlɨ̞/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdeːli/, /ˈdɛli/
Verb
[edit]deli
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
deli | ddeli | neli | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Verb
[edit]deli
- Soft mutation of teli.
Mutation
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