Turkish · Exclamations
Hassiktir!
hah-sik-TEER · /hasːikˈtiɾ/
Holy shit! / Oh fuck!
3/5 Watch your audience
genuinely rude; friends only, never at work
Literally
"(intensified form of 'siktir' — get fucked)"
Word-for-word — which is rarely what it means.
How to use it
An exclamation, not an insult — the thing you blurt when you stub your toe, see a near-miss, or get stunning news. Built on the profane root "siktir," so it's genuinely coarse; fine among friends, never in front of your girlfriend's parents. "Hassiktir be!" for maximum. Don't confuse it with aiming "siktir" at a person, which is a real "fuck off."
Heard in the wild
Hassiktir, telefonu düşürdüm!
Oh shit, I dropped my phone!
Where it lands
Turkey-wide; informal
Quick answers
- What does "Hassiktir!" mean?
- In Turkish, "Hassiktir!" means "Holy shit! / Oh fuck!". Literally it's "(intensified form of 'siktir' — get fucked)". An exclamation, not an insult — the thing you blurt when you stub your toe, see a near-miss, or get stunning news. Built on the profane root "siktir," so it's genuinely coarse; fine among friends, never in front of your girlfriend's parents. "Hassiktir be!" for maximum. Don't confuse it with aiming "siktir" at a person, which is a real "fuck off."
- Is "Hassiktir!" offensive?
- It's genuinely rude — a 3/5 (Watch your audience) on the Punch-o-Meter. Fine among friends, never at work or with people you've just met.
- How do you pronounce "Hassiktir!"?
- Say it "hah-sik-TEER" — capitals mark the stressed syllable. In IPA: hasːikˈtiɾ.
Related in Turkish
Ya YAH Come on / seriously / ugh — a softener-slash-intensifier tacked on for feeling Be BEH Man / geez — punchy emphasis, friendlier and older-school than 'lan' Yapma ya! yahp-MAH YAH No way! / Come on! / Get outta here! / Stop it! Of ya! OFF YAH Ugh! / For crying out loud! Allah Allah! ah-LAH ah-LAH What on earth?! / How strange! / What the—?! Vay anasını! VY ah-nah-suh-NUH Holy cow! / Well I'll be damned!
The same idea, elsewhere
Via concepts like "Damn".
- French Putain ! Damn! / F***! / The all-purpose intensifier — punctuation, really
- German Scheiße! Shit! / Damn! — the all-purpose German expletive
- Greek γαμώτο Damn it! / Dammit!
- Italian Cazzo! Fuck! / Damn! / The all-purpose Italian curse.
- Japanese くそ Damn! / Crap! / Shit!
- Korean 씨발 Fuck / fucking hell — the load-bearing Korean curse.
- Polish kurwa Fuck / damn / shit — the load-bearing word of Polish, and its most common comma.
- Portuguese Porra! Damn! / Fuck! — but mostly used as pure punctuation
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