تجلی

See also: تجلى and تجلي

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَجَلِّي (tajallī, “apparition, manifestation”).

Noun

تجلی • (tecelli) (plural تجلیات (tecelliyat))

1. apparition, manifestation, the act or process of becoming visible
2. epiphany, theophany, a manifestation or appearance of a divine being
3. (Christianity) Transfiguration, the miracle of the apparition of Christ before the apostles

Derived terms

• تجلی ایتمك (tecelli itmek, “to appear, to become visible”)
• عید تجلی (ʿid-i tecelli, “feast of the Transfiguration”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: tecelli

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tecelli”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4667
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tecellî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1257
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تجلی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 345
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Epiphania”, 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 470
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تجلی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1079
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tecelli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تجلی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 499