tekâsüf

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تكاثف, from Arabic تَكَاثُف (takāṯuf), verbal noun of تَكَاثَفَ (takāṯafa, “to grow denser; to thicken”).

Noun

tekâsüf (definite accusative tekâsüfü, plural tekâsüfler) (archaic)

1. coming together, concentrating, becoming dense
   • 1938 November 13, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, quotee, Cumhuriyet, page 1:

     Bir milletin muvaffakiyatı, mutlaka kuvayi umumiyei milliyenin bir istikamette tahaşşüd ve tekâsüf etmesile mümkündür.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (physics) condensation

See also

• tahaşşüt

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تكاثف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 393
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكاثف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 580
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “كثف”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN