تمل

See also: ثمل and بمل

Arabic

Verb

تمل (form I)

1. تَمِلْ (tamil) /ta.mil/: inflection of مَالَ (māla):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
2. تُمَلْ (tumal) /tu.mal/: inflection of مَالَ (māla):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

Ottoman Turkish

تمل

Etymology

From Greek θεμέλιο (themélio, “foundation, base”), from Ancient Greek θεμέλιος (themélios, “belonging to the foundation”).

Noun

تمل • (temel)

1. (architecture) foundation, base, underbuilding, that upon which anything is founded

   Synonyms: اساس (esas), اصل (asl), بنیاد (bunyad), قاعده (kaʿide)

2. (figuratively) fundament, basis, principle, an underlying condition or circumstance

   Synonym: اساس (esas)

Derived terms

• تمل آتمق (temel atmak, “to lay a foundation”)
• تمل طوتمق (temel tutmak, “to become firm in its place”)
• تملسز (temelsız, “without a foundation”)
• تمللشمك (temelleşmek, “to become regularly established”)
• تمللنمك (temellenmek, “to acquire a foundation”)
• تمللو (temelli, “possessed of a foundation”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: temel
• → Armenian: թէմէլ (tʻēmēl), թա̈մա̈լ (tʻämäl)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “temel1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4718
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تمل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 166b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تمل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 403
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fundamentum”, 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 629
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تمل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1396
• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 45
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “temel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تمل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 594