Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish یكون, from Arabic يَكُونُ (yakūnu), form of كَانَ (kāna, to be, exist).

Noun

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yekûn (definite accusative yekûnu, plural yekûnlar)

  1. total, sum

References

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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yekûn”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یكون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2206
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1251