اشارت

Malay

Noun

اشارت (plural اشارت-اشارت or اشارت۲, informal 1st possessive اشارتکو, 2nd possessive اشارتمو, 3rd possessive اشارتڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of isyarat‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِشَارَة (ʔišāra, “sign, signal”), verbal noun of أَشَارَ (ʔašāra, “to point out, to indicate”).

Noun

اشارت • (işaret) (definite accusative اشارتی (işareti), plural اشارتلر (işaretler) or اشارات (işarat))

1. sign, symbol, any object or event whose presence indicates the occurance of something else

   Synonyms: علامت (ʼalamet), نشان (nişan)

2. signal, any sign made to give notice of some occurrence, command, danger, or concerted action

Derived terms

• اشارت ایتمك (işaret etmek, “to mark upon a thing”)
• اشارت چكمك (işaret çekmek, “to hoist a signal”)

Descendants

• Turkish: işaret

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “işaret”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2251
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “işâret”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 558
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اشارت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 95
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Signum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1554
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اشارت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 229
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “işaret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اشارت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 117