# دلی
## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* دلو (delü)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish دلی, from Proto-Turkic *tēlbe (“mad, crazy”). Cognate with Azerbaijani dəli, Bashkir тиле (tile), Kazakh дәлду (däldu), Kyrgyz тели (teli), Turkmen däli, Uyghur تەلۋە (telwe) and Uzbek telba.

### Adjective

دلی • (deli)
* mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, bonkers, not sane, exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind, mentally deranged
    Synonyms: احمق (ahmak), دیوانه (divane), مجنون (mecnun)
* whimsical, eccentric, quirky, bizarre, odd, given to quirks or idiosyncrasies, strange in a somewhat silly, manner
* inconsiderate, thoughtless, unthoughtful, not considerate, showing lack of due thought or care for the other people
* rash, foolhardy, reckless, impulsive, precipitate, acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks

### Noun

دلی • (deli) (definite accusative دلیی (deliyi), plural دلیلر (deliler))
* madman, madwoman, loony, nut, psycho, schizo, nutcase, a person who is insane or mentally disturbed
* (historical) deli, a member of a light cavalry unit within the Ottoman Empire created to act as a shock troop

#### Derived terms

* جنك دلیسی (cenk delisi, “mad for war”)
* دلی آلاجه‌سی (deli alacası, “a bizarre matching of colors”)
* دلی اورمان (deli orman, “vast forest”)
* دلی باشی (deli başı, “leader of an irregular cavalry”)
* دلی بال (deli bal, “honey of low quality”)
* دلی دومان (deli duman, “whimsical and violent”)
* دلی دیوانه اولمق (deli divane olmak, “to become mad or crazy”)
* دلی صاچمه‌سی (deli saçması, “foolish or incongruous talk”)
* دلی طولو (deli dolu, “thoughtless, inconsiderate”)
* دلی فشك (deli fişek, “a reckless person”)
* دلی مانطار (deli mantar, “unedible mushroom”)
* دلیانه (deliyane, “pertaining to a madman”)
* دلیجه (delice, “maddish, somewhat mad”)
* دلیسی اولمق (delisi olmak, “to become mad or crazy”)
* دلیقانلو (delikanlı, “young man, lad”)
* دلیلك (delilik, “madness, craziness”)
* دلیلندرمك (delilendirmek, “to make or let become mad”)
* دلیلنمك (delilenmek, “to become mad or crazy”)
* زیر دلی (zır deli, “completely mad or crazy”)
* نه اولدم دلیسی (ne oldum delisi, “person full of fancies”)

#### Descendants

* Gagauz: deli
* Turkish: deli
** → Swedish: deli
* → Armenian: տէլի (tēli)
* → Greek: ντελής (ntelís)
* → Hungarian: deli
* → Serbo-Croatian: delija

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 751
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deli”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1138
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دلی”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 229a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 580
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Stultus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1607
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دلی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2131
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “deli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 912

## Urdu
### Etymology

Transliteration of Hindi दिल्ली (dillī).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɪl.liː/
* Rhymes: -iː

### Proper noun

دِلّی • (dillī) f (Hindi spelling दिल्ली)
* (India, informal) Alternative form of دِہْلی (dihlī, “Delhi”)

#### Usage notes

This term is mainly used informally. The standard term for Delhi in Urdu is دہلی (dehlī).

### See also

* (Union territories) یونین علاقہ (yūniyan ilāqā); جزائر انڈمان و نکوبار (jazāir-e-anḍamān-o-nikobār), چنڈی گڑھ (candī-gaṛh), دادرا و نگر حویلی و دمن و دیو (dādrā-o-nagar-havailī-o-daman-o-dīv), دہلی (dihlī), جموں و کشمیر (jammū̃-o-kaśmīr), لداخ (laddāx), لکشادیپ (lakśādīp), پدوچیری (pudūcerī),