tepeden tırnağa

== Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تپه‌دن طرناغه, or تپه‌دن طیرناغه (tepeden ṭırnaġa) from تپه (tepe) and طرناق (ṭırnaḳ), equivalent to tepe (“top, crown; hill”) +‎ -den (ablative suffix) +‎ tırnak (“nail (finger or toe)”) +‎ -a (dative suffix), literally “from the top to the nail”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /te.peˈden.tɯɾ.naːa/ Hyphenation: te‧pe‧den‧tır‧na‧ğa === Adverb === tepeden tırnağa (figuratively) completely, wholly, from top to bottom, from top to toe Synonyms: tepeden ayağa, tamamen, baştan aşağı, baştan başa, baştan sona tepeden tırnağa aramak ― to frisk search, body-search ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “tepeden tırnağa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tepeden tırnağa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4739