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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish امداد (imdad, “helping, aiding, help, assistance”),[1] from Arabic إِمْدَاد (ʔimdād), verbal noun of أَمَدَّ (ʔamadda).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /imˈdat/
- Hyphenation: im‧dat
Noun
imdat (definite accusative imdadı, plural imdatlar)
- Help, assistance.
- Synonyms: yardım, medet, (regional) kömek, (dated) muavenet
- (military) reinforcements
Declension
Derived terms
Interjection
imdat!
- Help!
- Synonym: Medet!
References
Further reading
- “imdat”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “imdat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2160
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN