تذكره

See also: تذكرة and تذکره

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَذْكِرَة (taḏkira).

Noun

تذكره • (tezkere or tezkire) (definite accusative تذكره‌یی (tezkereyi), plural تذكره‌لر (tezkereler))

1. memorandum, slip, chit, a small sheet of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder

   Synonym: پوصوله (pusula)

2. licence, permit, any legal document or artifact giving official permission to do something

   Synonym: برات (berat)

3. discharge papers, an official document that releases soldiers from their obligation to serve
4. memoir, biography, a nonfiction book showing a detailed description of a person's life story

Derived terms

• آو تذكره‌سی (av tezkeresi, “hunting licence”)
• اجازت تذكره‌سی (icazet tezkeresi, “diploma of theology”)
• اصناف تذكره‌سی (esnaf tezkeresi, “trading licence”)
• تذكره‌جی (tezkereci, “officer in charge of writing documents”)
• تذكره‌لك (tezkerelik, “kind of writing paper”)
• دعوت تذكره‌سی (daʼvet tezkeresi, “note of invitation”)
• یول تذكره‌سی (yol tezkeresi, “passport”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tezkere
• → Armenian: թէզքէրէ (tʻēzkʻērē), թէսքէրէ (tʻēskʻērē)
• → Romanian: teșcherea
• → Serbo-Croatian: tȅskera, те̏скера

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “tezkere”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tezkere1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4795
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tezkere”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1331
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تذكره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 357
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Syngrapha”, 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 1644
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تذكره”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1132
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tezkere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تذكره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 523