ابتدار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِبْتِدَار (ibtidār).

Noun

ابتدار • (ibtidar)

1. undertaking, setting to work
   • 1913 October 18, “توركیه ـ صربستان [Türkiye - Sırbistan, Turkey - Serbia]”, in Peyam, page 1:

     صربستان ایله هنوز رسمی مذاكراته ابتدار ایدلمامشدر.

     Sırbistan ile henüz resmî müzakerata ibtidar edilmemiştir.

     Formal negotiations with Serbia have not yet begun.

Descendants

• Turkish: iptidar

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ابتدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 44b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ابتدار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 8a
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “ibtidar”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN