Turkish · Insults
İt
EET · /it/
Cur / scoundrel / lowlife
3/5 Watch your audience
genuinely rude; friends only, never at work
Literally
"Dog / cur"
Word-for-word — which is rarely what it means.
How to use it
An old, contemptuous "cur." "İt herif" (the dog of a man), "itin biri" (some lowlife), "it gibi" (like a dog, e.g. worked/beaten). Folksier and more literary than the sexual insults, but still real contempt. You'll meet it in curses and village-tough talk. Friends-and-fury register.
Heard in the wild
O it beni dolandırdı.
That cur swindled me.
Where it lands
Turkey-wide; slightly folksy
Quick answers
- What does "İt" mean?
- In Turkish, "İt" means "Cur / scoundrel / lowlife". Literally it's "Dog / cur". An old, contemptuous "cur." "İt herif" (the dog of a man), "itin biri" (some lowlife), "it gibi" (like a dog, e.g. worked/beaten). Folksier and more literary than the sexual insults, but still real contempt. You'll meet it in curses and village-tough talk. Friends-and-fury register.
- Is "İt" 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 "İt"?
- Say it "EET" — capitals mark the stressed syllable. In IPA: it.
Related in Turkish
The same idea, elsewhere
Via concepts like "Screw you".
- French Enculé ! Motherf***er / bastard (one of the hardest personal insults)
- German Verpiss dich! Piss off! / Clear off (with force)!
- Greek άντε γαμήσου Go fuck yourself / get lost / piss off.
- Italian Vaffanculo! Fuck off! / Go to hell!
- Japanese クソ野郎 Piece of shit / shitty bastard
- Korean 개새끼 Son of a bitch / bastard — a real insult with no soft reading.
- Polish ty kurwo You whore / you bitch — the aimed kurwa, a different animal entirely.
- Portuguese Filho da puta Son of a bitch / bastard
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