ادراك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِدْرَاك (ʔidrāk, “grasping, understanding, comprehension”), verbal noun of أَدْرَكَ (ʔadraka, “to grasp, understand, realize”).

Noun

ادراك • (idrak)

1. arrival, the act of reaching or arriving in a place
2. reception, the act of obtaining, attaining, or receiving a thing
3. reason, common sense, consciousness, understanding

   Synonyms: اوص (us), شعور (şuûr), عقل (akl), هوش (huş)

4. (psychology) perception, the conscious understanding of something

Derived terms

• ادراكسز (idraksız, “unintelligent, senseless”)

Descendants

• Turkish: idrak

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “idrar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2095
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ادراك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 62
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Intellectus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 838
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ادراك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 113
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “idrak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ادراك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 50