teker teker

Turkish

Etymology

Reduplication of teker, from tek (“one, only, alone”) +‎ -er (distributive number suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /teˈceɾ.te.ceɾ/
Hyphenation: te‧ker‧te‧ker

Adverb

teker teker

one by one, one at a time
Synonyms: tek tek, birer birer

Related terms

tek başına
tek elden
tek tük
teke tek

Further reading

“teker teker”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “teker teker”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4696

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