sezgi
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish سزمك (sezmek, “to perceive, to discern, to make out”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *seŕ- (“to feel, to understand”),[2][3] morphologically sez- + -gi.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsezgi (definite accusative sezgiyi, plural sezgiler)
- The ability to intuit; intuition, divination, insight.
- Synonym: feraset
- (philosophy) Grasping reality directly without experience or reason.
Declension
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سزمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1057
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*sEŕ-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sez-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “sezgi”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sezgi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4183