temlik

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تملیك (temlik), from Arabic تَمْلِيك (tamlīk), verbal noun of مَلَكَ (malaka, “to possess, take possession, control”).

Noun

temlik (definite accusative temliki, plural temlikler) (archaic)

1. granting possession
2. land held by royal patent

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تملیك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 403
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “temlik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تملیك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 594
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN