tenezzül

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تنزل (tenezzül), from Arabic تَنَزُّل (tanazzul), verbal noun of تَنَزَّلَ (tanazzala, “to descend; to drop”).

Noun

tenezzül (definite accusative tenezzülü, plural tenezzüller)

1. reduction
   • 1939 August 8, “Ekmek meselesi”, in İkdam:

     Borsadan alınan son haberlere göre son hafta içinde buğday fiatlerinde bir mikdar tenezzül olmuştur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. condescension

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tenezzül”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنزل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 598
• “tenezzül”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu