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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish جزدان (cüzdan, cızdan), from Persian جزدان (jozdân).
Pronunciation
Noun
cüzdan (definite accusative cüzdanı, plural cüzdanlar)
- wallet (a flat case, often made of leather, for keeping money)
- certificate (official document, typically issued as a booklet in a size that one can keep it in one’s wallet)
- Nüfus cüzdanımı kaybettim, ne yapmalıyım? ― I’ve lost my identity certificate; what should I do?
Declension
References
- “cüzdan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Stachowski, Marek (2019) “cüzdan”, in Kurzgefaßtes etymologisches Wörterbuch der türkischen Sprache (in German), Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →DOI, page 103b
- Tietze, Andreas (2002) “cüzdan”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, pages 459–460