meziyet
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مزیت (meziyyet, “an excellence, admirable point in literary composition, superiority”),[1][2] from Arabic مَزِيّة (maziyya).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]meziyet (definite accusative meziyeti, plural meziyetler)
- A quality that separates a person or a thing from the rest of their kind; merit, excellence, eminence.
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مزیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1825
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مزیت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1156
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meziyet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “meziyet”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meziyet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3192