hercai

• hercayi

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish هرجایی (hercayi, “roving, inconstant”), from Classical Persian هَرْجَایِی (harjāyī, “vagrant, wandering”).

• IPA^(key): /heɾ.d͡ʒaːˈiː/
• Hyphenation: her‧cai

hercai

1. fickle, flighty, capricious, inconstant, quick to change one’s opinion

   Synonyms: gelgeç, kaypak, yeltek

2. (by extension) unsteady in love, frequently changing lovers

• “hercai”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “hercai”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “hercai”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1934
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “hercai”, in Nişanyan Sözlük