تثلیث

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَثْلِيث (taṯlīṯ), verbal noun of ثَلَّثَ (ṯallaṯa, “to make into three”).

Noun

تثلیث • (teslis) (definite accusative تثلیثی (teslisi))

1. making into three
2. (geometry) making into three equal parts
3. (Christianity) Trinity
4. doing an act three times

Descendants

• Turkish: teslis

Further reading

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tasvib”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1312
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teslis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تثلیث”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 494