çetrefil

== Turkish == === Etymology === Uncertain. Inherited from Ottoman Turkish چتره‌فیل (çetrefil, “speaking a language with difficulty or incorrectly; the Turkish dialect spoken by many peoples of Turkey in Europe”). Nişanyan compares the term to çat pat, çatra patra, both idioms that express speaking a language incorrectly or incompletely. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /t͡ʃet.ɾeˈfil/ === Adjective === çetrefil complex, hard to understand, thorny Synonym: çetrefilli difficult to pronounce spoken in a broken accent === References ===