zayiat

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ضایعات, formed in Ottoman as a pseudo-Arabic plural from ضَائِع (ḍāʔiʕ), active participle of ضَاعَ (ḍāʕa).

Noun

zayiat (definite accusative zayiatı, plural zayiatlar)

1. (archaic) losses
2. (military, archaic) casualties

   zayiat vermek ― to take casualties

   zayiat verdirmek ― to inflict casualties

   • 1940 May 14, headline in Tasviri Efkâr:

     Müstevliler çok ağır zayiat veriyorlar

     Invaders suffer very heavy losses

Related terms

• zayi (“lost”)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zayi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضائعات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1205
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1275