شبهه

See also: شبهة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شُبْهَة (šubha, “doubt, uncertainty”).

Noun

شبهه • (şübhe) (definite accusative شبهه‌یی (şübheyi), plural شبه (şübeh) or شبهات (şübühât))

1. doubt, uncertainty, misgiving, a lack of conviction, an indecision between belief and disbelief

   Synonym: اشكل (işkil)

2. suspicion, inkling, the act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong

Derived terms

• شبهه آتمق (şübhe atmak, “to cast a doubt upon”)
• شبهه ایتمك (şübhe etmek, “to doubt”)
• شبهه براقمق (şübhe bırakmak, “to leave a doubt behind”)
• شبهه كوتورمك (şübhe götürmek, “to to cast a doubt upon”)
• شبهه‌جی (şübheci, “a suspicious person”)
• شبهه‌دار (şübhedâr, “doubtful, suspectful”)
• شبهه‌سز (şübhesiz, “doubtless, sure”)
• شبهه‌لنمك (şübhelenmek, “to conceive a doubt”)
• شبهه‌لو (şübheli, “doubtful”)
• شبهه‌یه دوشمك (şübheye düşmek, “to have a suspicion”)
• نه شبهه (ne şübhe, “most certainly”)

Descendants

• Turkish: şüphe
• → Albanian: shybe
• → Armenian: շիւփէ (šiwpʻē), շըֆա (šəfa), շուֆա (šufa)
• → Aromanian: shubee, shubei, shubie
• → Bulgarian: шюбе́ (šjubé), шіубе́
• → Macedonian: шубе (šube)

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “شبهه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 138
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şüphe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4507
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “şübhe”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1201
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شبهه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 720
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Dubium”, 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 433
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شبهة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2774
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şüphe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شبهه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1115