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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِكْرَام (ʔikrām, “honoring”), verbal noun of أَكْرَمَ (ʔakrama, “to dignify, honor”).
Noun
اكرام • (ikrâm) (definite accusative اكرامی (ikrâmı), plural اكرامات (ikrâmat))
- honoring, the act of showing honor, respect, or veneration to someone
- welcoming, the act of giving a kind welcome to a guest or newcomer
- abatement, discount, rebate, a reduction in price given to a customer
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ikram”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2128
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ikrâm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 507
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اكرام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 126
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Honorare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 703
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اكرام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 349
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ikram”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اكرام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 172