Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic تَوْسِيع (tawsīʕ), verbal noun of وَسَّعَ (wassaʕa).

Noun

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توسیع (tevsi) (definite accusative توسیعی (tevsi'i))

  1. enlargement
  2. extension

Descendants

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  • Turkish: tevsi

Further reading

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “tevsi”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “توسیع”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 414a