Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic اِقْتِبَاس (iqtibās), verbal noun of اِقْتَبَسَ (iqtabasa).

Noun edit

اقتباس (iktibas)

  1. borrowing, extracting (knowledge), taking advantage of
  2. quoting
  3. adapting (a literary work)

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: ikitbas

References edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اقتباس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 122b
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “iktibas”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN