Ottoman Turkish

edit

Etymology

edit

From Arabic تَعْمِيم (taʕmīm), verbal noun of عَمَّمَ (ʕammama).

Noun

edit

تعمیم (tamim)

  1. generalization, making general
  2. circular (letter)

Descendants

edit
  • Turkish: tamim

References

edit
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تعمیم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 383
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1093