Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic اِبْتِدَار (ibtidār).

Noun edit

ابتدار (ibtidar)

  1. undertaking, setting to work
    • 1913 October 18, “توركیه ـ صربستان [Türkiye - Sırbistan, Turkey - Serbia]”, in Peyam, page 1:
      صربستان ایله هنوز رسمی مذاكراته ابتدار ایدلمامشدر.
      Sırbistan ile henüz resmî müzakerata ibtidar edilmemiştir.
      Formal negotiations with Serbia have not yet begun.

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: iptidar

References edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ابتدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 44b
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ابتدار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 8a
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “ibtidar”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN