müşahit

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مشاهد (müşahid), from Arabic مُشاهِد (mušāhid), active participle of شَاهَدَ (šāhada, “to watch, see, observe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [my.ʃaːˈhit]
• Hyphenation: mü‧şa‧hit

Noun

müşahit (definite accusative müşahidi, plural müşahitler) (archaic)

1. spectator, observer, eyewitness
   • 1941 December 13, “Alman kayıpları”, in Yeniyol, Trabzon, page 1:

     Vaşington 12 (a.a.) - Rus cephesinde bulunan müşahitlere göre Almanların insan kayıpları dört milyon iki yüz bindir.

     According to observers, German casualties on the Russian front are four million two hundred thousand men.

Related terms

• müşahede

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “müşahid”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 899
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مشاهد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1171
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müşahit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN