деген

Kumyk

Determiner

деген • (degen)

1. named, who/which was called; whose name was
   • 2020 November 13 (last accessed), Нугьай Батырмурзаев, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 November 2020:

     Гьарунуррашидни заманында, Синдибат деген бир гиши бар эди.

     Harunurraşidni zamanında, Sindibat degen bir gişi bar edi.

     In the time of Harun al Rashid, there was a man named Sinbad.

Further reading

• Бамматов Б.Г., editor (2013), “деген”, in Кумыкско-русский словарь [Kumyk–Russian dictionary], Makhachkala: ИЯЛИ ДНЦ РАН

Macedonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɛˈɡɛn]

Noun

деге́н • (degén) m (plural деге́ни, relational adjective деге́нски)

1. (slang) idiot, degenerate

Declension

Declension of деген

	singular	plural
indefinite	деген	дегени
definite unspecified	дегенот	дегените
definite proximal	дегенов	дегениве
definite distal	дегенон	дегенине
vocative	дегену	дегени
count form	—	дегена

Southern Altai

Etymology

Reported past tense of the defective verb деер (deer, “to say”).

Cognate with Kazakh дигән (digän), Kyrgyz деген (degen), Kumyk деген (degen), Uzbek degan, etc.

Adjective

деген • (degen)

1. called, named

References

• Алтайско-Русский Словарь 2015.

• деген