ezbere
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ازبره (ezbere),[1][2] from ازبر (ezber), from Persian از بر (az bar, “by heart”).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]ezbere
- by heart, by memorizing, without reading from the text
- Synonym: ezberden
- (figuratively) Without properly understanding, thinking about or looking into a matter, rashly.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “ازبره”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 92
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ازبره چالشمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 79
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ezber”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “ezbere”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ezbere”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1532