delikanlı

From Ottoman Turkish دلیقانلی, دلیقانلو (delikanlı), equivalent to deli (“crazy”) +‎ kan (“blood”) +‎ -lı (“with”). "He who has crazy blood".

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delikanlı

1. honest (male person)

delikanlı (definite accusative delikanlıyı, plural delikanlılar)

1. young man (an adolescent who recently got out of his childhood)

• delikanlılık

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلیقانلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 580