tanım
Turkish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
tanım
- first-person singular possessive of tan
Usage notes edit
- When this word is pronounced, the stress is on the last syllable: tanım. (The pronunciation with stress on the penultimate syllable, tanım, means "I am [a(n)/the] twilight.")
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
tanım
- first-person singular possessive of tanı
Etymology 3 edit
Coined during the language reform and successfully replaced the Arabic-derived tavsif and tarif. Can be analyzed as tanı- + -m.
Noun edit
tanım (definite accusative tanımı, plural tanımlar)
- description (account in words)
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “tanım”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu