tahassüs
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish تحسس, from Arabic تَحَسُّس (taḥassus), verbal noun of تَحَسَّسَ (taḥassasa). The original active sense translated by Redhouse as "listening and inquiring earnestly" became a passive sense of feeling in late Ottoman times.
Noun edit
tahassüs (definite accusative tahassüsü, plural tahassüsler) (archaic)
- being moved or impressed; feeling, sensation
- Synonyms: duygulanma, hislenme
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tahassüs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1216
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mütehassis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تحسس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 507
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN