çetrefil.
complex, hard to understand, thorny
Meaning & usage
complex, hard to understand, thorny
difficult to pronounce
spoken in a broken accent
Where this word comes from
Uncertain. Inherited from Ottoman Turkish چترهفیل (çetrefil, “speaking a language with difficulty or incorrectly; the Turkish dialect spoken by many peoples of Turkey in Europe”). Nişanyan compares the term to çat pat, çatra patra, both idioms that express speaking a language incorrectly or incompletely.
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