mutavassıt
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish متوسط (mütavassıt, mutavassıt), from Arabic مُتَوَسِّط (mutawassiṭ).
Noun edit
mutavassıt (definite accusative mutavassıtı, plural mutavassıtlar) (archaic)
- mediator, intermediary
- mean (middle)
References edit
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mutavassıt”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 827
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “متوسط”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1735
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN