Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Plural of Arabic تَحْكِيم (taḥkīm). The military sense arose in Ottoman Turkish.

Noun

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تحكیمات (tahkimat)

  1. (military) fortifications

Descendants

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  • Turkish: tahkimat

Further reading

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “tahkimat”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تحكیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 351a
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tahkimat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük