hayli

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish خیلی (haylı), from Persian خیلی (xeyli), from Arabic خَيْل (ḵayl, “herd of horses”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haj.li/

Adjective

hayli

1. much
2. many of; a crowd of
   • 1937 November 13, Kandemir, “Antakya... ve ötesi..”, in Cumhuriyet, page 5:

     Asi nehri üzerindeki köprü bir hayli kalabalıktı.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Adverb

hayli

1. quite; well; very

   Synonym: oldukça

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hayli”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1915
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خیلی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 878
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hayli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN