اكرام

See also: إكرام

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِكْرَام (ʔikrām, “honoring”), verbal noun of أَكْرَمَ (ʔakrama, “to dignify, honor”).

Noun

اكرام • (ikrâm) (definite accusative اكرامی (ikrâmı), plural اكرامات (ikrâmat))

1. honoring, the act of showing honor, respect, or veneration to someone
2. welcoming, the act of giving a kind welcome to a guest or newcomer
3. abatement, discount, rebate, a reduction in price given to a customer

Derived terms

• اكرام ایتمك (ikrâm etmek, “to show honor”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ikram
• → Armenian: իքրամ (ikʻram)
• → Macedonian: икрам (ikram)
• → Romanian: icram

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ikram”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2128
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ikrâm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 507
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اكرام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 126
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Honorare”, 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 703
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اكرام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 349
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ikram”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اكرام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 172