şahsen

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish شخصاً‎ (şahsan), from Arabic شَخْصًا‎ (šaḵṣan), adverbial accusative of شَخْص‎ (šaḵṣ, “person, individual”). By surface analysis, şahıs +‎ -en.

Adverb

şahsen

  1. personally
  2. in person

References
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “şahıs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “شخصا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1118
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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