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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish استملاك (istimlak), from Arabic اِسْتِمْلَاك (istimlāk), verbal noun of اِسْتَمْلَكَ (istamlaka, “to appropriate, take, control, possess”).
Pronunciation
Noun
istimlak (definite accusative istimlaki, plural istimlakler)
- expropriation; condemnation
- Synonym: kamulaştırma
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References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “istimlâk”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 551
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “istimlak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “istimlak”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN