اعتذار

Arabic

Root
ع ذ ر (ʕ-ḏ-r)

Etymology

Verbal noun of اِعْتَذَرَ (iʕtaḏara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iʕ.ti.ðaːr/

Noun

اِعْتِذَار • (iʕtiḏār) m (plural اِعْتِذَارَات (iʕtiḏārāt))

1. apology

Declension

Declension of noun اِعْتِذَار (iʕtiḏār)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	اِعْتِذَار iʕtiḏār	الِاعْتِذَار al-iʕtiḏār	اِعْتِذَار iʕtiḏār
Nominative	اِعْتِذَارٌ iʕtiḏārun	الِاعْتِذَارُ al-iʕtiḏāru	اِعْتِذَارُ iʕtiḏāru
Accusative	اِعْتِذَارًا iʕtiḏāran	الِاعْتِذَارَ al-iʕtiḏāra	اِعْتِذَارَ iʕtiḏāra
Genitive	اِعْتِذَارٍ iʕtiḏārin	الِاعْتِذَارِ al-iʕtiḏāri	اِعْتِذَارِ iʕtiḏāri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	اِعْتِذَارَيْن iʕtiḏārayn	الِاعْتِذَارَيْن al-iʕtiḏārayn	اِعْتِذَارَيْ iʕtiḏāray
Nominative	اِعْتِذَارَانِ iʕtiḏārāni	الِاعْتِذَارَانِ al-iʕtiḏārāni	اِعْتِذَارَا iʕtiḏārā
Accusative	اِعْتِذَارَيْنِ iʕtiḏārayni	الِاعْتِذَارَيْنِ al-iʕtiḏārayni	اِعْتِذَارَيْ iʕtiḏāray
Genitive	اِعْتِذَارَيْنِ iʕtiḏārayni	الِاعْتِذَارَيْنِ al-iʕtiḏārayni	اِعْتِذَارَيْ iʕtiḏāray
Plural	sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	اِعْتِذَارَات iʕtiḏārāt	الِاعْتِذَارَات al-iʕtiḏārāt	اِعْتِذَارَات iʕtiḏārāt
Nominative	اِعْتِذَارَاتٌ iʕtiḏārātun	الِاعْتِذَارَاتُ al-iʕtiḏārātu	اِعْتِذَارَاتُ iʕtiḏārātu
Accusative	اِعْتِذَارَاتٍ iʕtiḏārātin	الِاعْتِذَارَاتِ al-iʕtiḏārāti	اِعْتِذَارَاتِ iʕtiḏārāti
Genitive	اِعْتِذَارَاتٍ iʕtiḏārātin	الِاعْتِذَارَاتِ al-iʕtiḏārāti	اِعْتِذَارَاتِ iʕtiḏārāti

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: etizar
• → Ottoman Turkish: اعتذار (itizâr)
  • Turkish: itizar

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِعْتِذَار (iʕtiḏār, “apology”), verbal noun of اِعْتَذَرَ (iʕtaḏara, “to apologize”).

Noun

اعتذار • (iʼtizâr)

1. apology, excuse, a plea offered in extenuation of a fault

   Synonym: عذر (ʼözür)

Derived terms

• اعتذار ایتمك (iʼtizâr etmek, “to apologize”)

Descendants

• Turkish: itizar

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “i’tizar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2269
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “iʼtizâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 564
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اعتذار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 109
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Apologia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 71
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اعتذار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 279
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “itizar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اعتذار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 139