aklı başında

== Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عقلی باشنده (aḳlı başında), from عقل (aḳl, aḳıl) and باش (baş), equivalent to akıl (“wits, reason, mind”) +‎ -ı (possessive suffix) +‎ baş (“head”) +‎ -ı (possessive suffix) +‎ -(n)da (locative suffix with "n" as buffer consonant), literally “his/her/their wits are in their head”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ak.ɫɯ.ba.ʃɯnˈda/ Hyphenation: ak‧lı‧ba‧şın‧da === Adjective === aklı başında (figuratively) reasonable, sane, lucid (figuratively) sensible, levelheaded, judicious ==== Declension ==== === Adverb === aklı başında reasonably, sensibly ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “aklı başında”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “aklı başında”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 169