mukabele
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish مقابله (muḳābele, “a being or becoming opposite, facing another, meeting any action with its like, a reward or retaliation”),[1] from Arabic مُقَابَلَة (muqābala, “interview, meeting, encounter, opposition”), verbal noun of قَابَلَ (qābala, “to be opposite, to confront, to face, to meet”).[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmukabele (definite accusative mukabeleyi, plural mukabeleler)
- The act of responding, reciprocating; a response.
- Synonym: karşılık
- The act of standing up, rising against.
- (Islam) Qur'an reciting activity where one person recites either from memory or from the book and others participate by following from the book.
Declension
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editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقابله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1936
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hülasa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “mukabele”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mukabele”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3294