وسوسه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَسْوَسَة (waswasa, “suggestion of the devil, temptation”), verbal noun of the verb وَسْوَسَ (waswasa, “to whisper”).

Noun

وسوسه • (vesvese or fesfese)

1. (originally) temptation, enticement, evil suggestion, the desire to engage in short-term urges

   Synonyms: اغوا (iğva), فتنه (fitne)

2. delusion, a false and unfounded thought that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts

   Synonym: قورندی (kuruntu)

Usage notes

The pronunciation fesfese is considered vulgar by Redhouse. Nişanyan notes the second meaning "delusion" overtook the original one since the 19th c.

Derived terms

• وسوسه ایتمك (vesvese etmek, “to be delusional”)
• وسوسه‌جی (vesveseci, “deluded person”)
• وسوسه‌خیز (vesvesehiz, “delusional”)
• وسوسه‌دار (vesvesedar, “deluded, anxious”)
• وسوسه‌لو (vesveseli, “deluded, anxious”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: vesvese
• → Albanian: vesves
• → Armenian: ֆէսֆէսէ (fēsfēsē), վասվասա (vasvasa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vesvese”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5114
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “vesvese”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1381
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وسوسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1310
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Suggestio”, 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 1625
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وسوسه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5372
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vesvese”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وسوسه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2137

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic وَسْوَسَة (waswasa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [was.wa.ˈsa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wäs.wä.sǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [wäs.wä.sǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [wäs.wä.sǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [wäs.wä.sǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [væs.væ.sé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [väs.vä.sǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	waswasa
Dari reading?	waswasa
Iranian reading?	vasvase
Tajik reading?	vasvasa

Noun

وسوسه • (vasvase)

1. temptation

Derived terms

• وسوسه کردن (vasvase kardan, “to tempt”)
• وسوسه‌انگیز (vasvase-angiz, “tempting”)

 

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “وسوسه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim