tenezzül
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish تنزل (tenezzül), from Arabic تَنَزُّل (tanazzul), verbal noun of تَنَزَّلَ (tanazzala, “to descend; to drop”).
Noun edit
tenezzül (definite accusative tenezzülü, plural tenezzüller)
- reduction
- 1939 August 8, “Ekmek meselesi”, in İkdam:
- Borsadan alınan son haberlere göre son hafta içinde buğday fiatlerinde bir mikdar tenezzül olmuştur.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- condescension
References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tenezzül”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنزل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 598
- “tenezzül”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu