tahassüs

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تحسس, from Arabic تَحَسُّس (taḥassus), verbal noun of تَحَسَّسَ (taḥassasa). The original active sense translated by Redhouse as "listening and inquiring earnestly" became a passive sense of feeling in late Ottoman times.

Noun

tahassüs (definite accusative tahassüsü, plural tahassüsler) (archaic)

1. being moved or impressed; feeling, sensation

   Synonyms: duygulanma, hislenme

Derived terms

• tahassüsât

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tahassüs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1216
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mütehassis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تحسس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 507
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN