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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قدم (kıdem), from Arabic قِدَم (qidam).
Noun
kıdem (definite accusative kıdemi, plural kıdemler)
- priority
- precedence
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قدم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 949b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıdem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN