topyekûn
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طوپ یكون (top yekûn, “a sum total”),[1][2] from طوپ (top) and Arabic يَكُنْ (yakun), from كَانَ (kāna, “to be, to exist”).[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]topyekûn
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوپ یكون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1249
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “طوپ یكون”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 889
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yekûn”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “topyekûn”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “topyekûn”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4874