teskin
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish تسكین (teskin, “a calming, pasifying, making quiet”),[1][2] from Arabic تَسْكِين (taskīn, “pacification”), verbal noun of سَكَّنَ (sakkana, “to calm, to reassure, to appease”).[3]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editteskin (definite accusative teskini, plural teskinler)
- An act of calming, soothing pain, anger, excitement etc.
Declension
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editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تسكین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 546
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تسكین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 368
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teskin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “teskin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “teskin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4768