cüzdan

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جزدان‎ (cüzdan, cızdan), from Persian جزدان‎ (jozdân).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʒyz.dɑn/

Noun

cüzdan (definite accusative cüzdanı, plural cüzdanlar)

  1. wallet (a flat case, often made of leather, for keeping money)
  2. certificate (official document, typically issued as a booklet in a size that one can keep it in one’s wallet)
    Nüfus cüzdanımı kaybettim, ne yapmalıyım? ― I’ve lost my identity certificate; what should I do?

Declension
Inflection
Nominative cüzdan
Definite accusative cüzdanı
Singular Plural
Nominative cüzdan cüzdanlar
Definite accusative cüzdanı cüzdanları
Dative cüzdana cüzdanlara
Locative cüzdanda cüzdanlarda
Ablative cüzdandan cüzdanlardan
Genitive cüzdanın cüzdanların

References
  • cüzdan in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Stachowski, Marek (2019), “cüzdan”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 103b
  • Tietze, Andreas (2002), “cüzdan”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 459–460
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