teşebbüs
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تشبث, from Arabic تَشَبُّث (tašabbuṯ), verbal noun of تَشَبَّثَ (tašabbaṯa, “to be stubborn”).
Noun
teşebbüs (definite accusative teşebbüsü, plural teşebbüsler)
- effort, initiative, a determined start [from 17th c.]
- attempt [from 20th c.]
Derived terms
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تشبث”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 370
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “teşebbüs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تشبث”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 549
- The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, 2013, →ISBN
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