مبتدا

See also: مبتدأ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مُبْتَدَأ (mubtadaʔ).

Noun

مبتدا • (mübteda)

1. a time or place of beginning, a commencement
2. (Ar. grammar) a subject, nominative to a clause or sentence
3. t. a subject or nominative to a verb

Derived terms

• مبتدای رأی (“a first thought, a first opinion”)
• مبتدا و خبر (“subject and predicate”)

Related terms

• مبتدی (mübtedi)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مبتدا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1669