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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَسْوَسَة (waswasa, “suggestion of the devil, temptation”), verbal noun of the verb وَسْوَسَ (waswasa, “to whisper”).
Noun
وسوسه • (vesvese or fesfese)
- (originally) temptation, enticement, evil suggestion, the desire to engage in short-term urges
- Synonyms: اغوا (iğva), فتنه (fitne)
- delusion, a false and unfounded thought that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts
- Synonym: قورندی (kuruntu)
Usage notes
The pronunciation fesfese is considered vulgar by Redhouse.
Nişanyan notes the second meaning "delusion" overtook the original one since the 19th c.
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vesvese”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5114
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “vesvese”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1381
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “وسوسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1310
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Suggestio”, 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 1625
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “وسوسه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5372
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “vesvese”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وسوسه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2137
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic وَسْوَسَة (waswasa).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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waswasa
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| Dari reading?
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waswasa
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| Iranian reading?
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vasvase
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| Tajik reading?
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vasvasa
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Noun
وسوسه • (vasvase)
- temptation
Derived terms
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “وسوسه”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim