mesela

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See also: meselâ

Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مثلا (mesela), derived from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan, for example), adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal, example), with loss of the nunation, resulting in mesela instead of expected *meselen, with pronunciation of final /aː/ instead of /en/ (compare Turkish evvela, for Arabic أَوَّلًا (ʔawwalan), or mutlaka, for Arabic مُطْلَقًا (muṭlaqan)). By surface analysis, mesel (example) +‎ -an (adverbial suffix).

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Adverb

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mesela

  1. for example

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