mütenasip

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish متناسب (mütenasib), from Arabic مُتَنَاسِب (mutanāsib), active participle of تَنَاسَبَ (tanāsaba).

Adjective

mütenasip (archaic)

1. proportional
2. symmetric
3. well-proportioned
   • 1939 September 23, Aydın page 2, from a list of things women should not do while pregnant:

     […] modaya uyacağım diye vücudumun mütenasip olduğunu göstereceğim diye mevsimsiz ince dekolte ile gezmek […]

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References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مسناسب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1116
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mütenasip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “متساسب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1728
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 849