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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish استعاره (istiʿāre, “an asking for a loan, for the temporary use of a thing, a using (a word) tropically, metaphorically, a trope, metaphor”), from Arabic اِسْتِعَارَة (istiʕāra, “metaphor”), verbal noun of اِسْتَعَارَ (istaʕāra).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /is.ti.aːˈɾe/
- Hyphenation: is‧ti‧a‧re
Noun
istiare (definite accusative istiareyi, plural istiareler)
- An act of borrowing, taking something as a loan.
- Synonyms: ödünç alma, ödünçleme
- (literature, dated) Using a word or a phrase instead of something else in comparison or similitude; a metaphor.
- Synonyms: eğretileme, metafor
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