زینت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زِينَة (zīna, “ornament, decoration, embellishment”); compare Azerbaijani ziynət, Kazakh зейнет (zeinet), Turkmen zynat, Uyghur زىننەت (zinnet) and Uzbek ziynat.

Noun

زینت • (ziynet)

1. ornament, decoration, embellishment, garnish, any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies

   Synonyms: آرایش (arayış), بزك (bezek), زیور (ziver), سوس (süs)

Derived terms

• زینت ویرمك (ziynet virmek, “to adorn, embellish”)
• زینتسز (ziynetsiz, “unadorned, plain”)
• زینتلمك (ziynetlemek, “to adorn, embellish”)
• زینتلنمك (ziynetlenmek, “to become embellished”)
• زینتلو (ziynetli, “adorned, embellished”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: ziynet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ziynet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5492
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “zînet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1429
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زینت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 654
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ornamentum”, 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 1222
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زینت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2502
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ziynet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زینت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1023