حصانت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَصَانَة (ḥaṣāna), verbal noun of حَصُنَ (ḥaṣuna, “to be inaccesible; to be chaste”).

Noun

حصانت • (hasanet)

1. (of a fortress) impenetrability, impregnability, inexpugnability, the quality of withstanding all the attacks
2. (of a woman) chastity, married respectability, the state of abstaining from any immoral sexual activity

   Synonym: عفت (ʼiffet)

Descendants

• Turkish: hasanet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hasanet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1885
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “hasânet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 387
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حصانت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 509
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حصانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1767
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حصانت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 788