تذهیب

See also: تذهيب

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَذْهِيب (taḏhīb, “ornamentation with gold”), verbal noun of ذَهَّبَ (ḏahhaba, “to gild”).

Noun

تذهیب • (tezhib)

1. gilding, the art or process of applying gold leaf to a surface

   Synonyms: یالدز (yaldız), یالدزلامه (yaldızlama)

Derived terms

• تذهیب اسنان (tezhib-i esnan, “aurification”)
• تذهیب ایتمك (tezhib etmek, “to gild”)
• تذهیبجی (tezhibci, “gilder”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tezhip

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tezhip”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4795
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tezhîb”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1331
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تذهیب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 357
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Deaurare”, 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 323
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تذهیب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1133
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tezhip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تذهیب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 524