حصانت
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic حَصَانَة (ḥaṣāna), verbal noun of حَصُنَ (ḥaṣuna, “to be inaccesible; to be chaste”).
Noun
[edit]حصانت • (hasanet)
- (of a fortress) impenetrability, impregnability, inexpugnability, the quality of withstanding all the attacks
- (of a woman) chastity, married respectability, the state of abstaining from any immoral sexual activity
- Synonym: عفت (ʼiffet)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: hasanet
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hasanet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1885
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hasânet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 387
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حصانت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 509
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حصانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 1767
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حصانت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 788