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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كَسَاد (kasād, “unsalableness; economic depression”), verbal noun of كَسَدَ (kasada, “to run not well, to be stagnant”).
Noun
كساد • (kesad)
- unsaleableness, the state or quality of being unsellable or unmarketable
- (economics) stagnation, depression, a period of major economic contraction
Derived terms
- كسادلق (kesadlık, “time or condition of stagnation”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kesat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2565
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kesâd”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 611
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كساد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3946
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kesat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كساد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1546