kazara
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish قضارا (ḳażārā),[1][2] from Persian قضارا (qazârâ), from Arabic قَضَاء (qaḍāʔ, “divine will or decree, providence, destiny”).[3]
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editkazara
- by accident, accidentally, unintentionally
- Synonyms: kazaen, ezkaza, yanlışlıkla
- randomly, coincidentally, by chance
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قضارا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1459
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قضارا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 963
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kazara”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “kazara”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kazara”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2507