Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Contraction of كم ایسه (kim ise).

Pronoun

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كیمسه (kimse)

  1. somebody
  2. anybody; (in negative polarity phrases) nobody

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Turkish: kimse

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیمسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1068
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمسه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1572
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN