terakkiyat

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ترقیات, from Arabic تَرَقِّيَات (taraqqiyāt), plural of تَرَقٍّ (taraqqin), verbal noun of تَرَقَّى (taraqqā, “to progress”). Terakki comes from the singular.

Noun

terakkiyat (definite accusative terakkiyatı, uncountable) (archaic)

1. advances, progress, improvements

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترقیات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 535
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN