hüviyet

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish هویت (hüviyet), from Arabic هُوِيَّة (huwiyya, “identity”). The semantic shift from the philosophical to the bureaucratic sense of identity dates from the late 19th century.

Noun edit

hüviyet (definite accusative hüviyeti, plural hüviyetler)

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Synonym: kimlik kartı

References edit

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hüviyet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هویت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2174