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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مشاهد (müşahid), from Arabic مُشاهِد (mušāhid), active participle of شَاهَدَ (šāhada, “to watch, see, observe”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mü‧şa‧hit
Noun
müşahit (definite accusative müşahidi, plural müşahitler) (archaic)
- spectator, observer, eyewitness
1941 December 13, “Alman kayıpları”, in Yeniyol, Trabzon, page 1:Vaşington 12 (a.a.) - Rus cephesinde bulunan müşahitlere göre Almanların insan kayıpları dört milyon iki yüz bindir.- According to observers, German casualties on the Russian front are four million two hundred thousand men.
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “müşahid”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 899
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مشاهد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1171
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müşahit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN