امضا

Ottoman Turkish

امضا

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمْضَاء (ʔimḍāʔ, “signature”).

Noun

امضا • (imza)

1. signature, a person's name, written by that person, used as identification

   Synonym: پنچه (pençe)

2. signature, an act of signing one's name, or an act of producing a signature

Derived terms

• امضا ایتمك (imza itmek, “to sign”)
• امضا قومق (imza komak, “to affix a signature”)
• امضا قویمق (imza koymak, “to sign”)
• امضا چكمك (imza çekmek, “to write one's signature”)
• امضالاتمق (imzalatmak, “to make or let be signed”)
• امضالاشمق (imzalaşmak, “to interchange signatures”)
• امضالامق (imzalamak, “to sign”)
• امضالانمق (imzalanmak, “to be signed”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: imza
• Crimean Tatar: imza
• → Armenian: իմզա (imza)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “imza”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2166
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “imza”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 518
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “امضا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 147a
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Subscriptio”, 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 1616
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “امضا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 420
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “imza”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “امضا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 200

Persian

Pronunciation

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Noun

امضا • (emzâ')

1. Alternative form of امضاء