tesadüfen
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تصادفاً (tesādüfen),[1] from Arabic تَصَادُفًا (taṣādufan) adverbial accusative of تَصَادُف (taṣāduf, “coincidence”), verbal noun of تَصَادَفَ (taṣādafa, “to meet by chance”).[2] Compare Uzbek tasodifan, Uyghur تاسادىپەن (tasadipen) and Azerbaijani təsadüfən.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]tesadüfen
- by chance, as a result of a coincidence, accidentally
- Synonym: tesadüf eseri
- Travnik benim tesadüfen keşfettiğim bir şehir. ― Travnik is a city I discovered as a result of a coincidence.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “تَصادُفاً”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 409
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tesadüf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “tesadüfen”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tesadüfen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4763