teşebbüs
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish تشبث, from Arabic تَشَبُّث (tašabbuṯ), verbal noun of تَشَبَّثَ (tašabbaṯa, “to be stubborn”).
Noun edit
teşebbüs (definite accusative teşebbüsü, plural teşebbüsler)
- effort, initiative, a determined start [from 17th c.]
- attempt [from 20th c.]
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تشبث”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 370
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teşebbüs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تشبث”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 549
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN