sehven
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سهواً (sehven),[1][2] from Arabic سَهْوًا (sahwan) adverbial accusative of سَهْو (sahw), from سَهَا (sahā, “to neglect”).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sehven
- (archaic) mistakenly, by mistake, inadvertently
- Synonyms: yanlışlıkla, kazara, (arhaic) ezkaza, (archaic) kazaen
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سهواً”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1098
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سهواً”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 705
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sehiv”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “sehven”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sehven”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4123