tahsil
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English
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Etymology
From Hindi तहसील (tahsīl) and Urdu تحصیل.
Noun
tahsil (plural tahsils)
- An administrative division in India and Pakistan.
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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تحصیل (taḥṣil, “a making be existent or present, producing, production; an extracting, educing; an obtaining, acquiring, acquisition, especially of learning or science; a collecting (money), collection of revenue”), from Arabic تَحْصِيل (taḥṣīl), verbal noun of حَصَّلَ (ḥaṣṣala, “to produce, to educe, to extract, to raise, to gather”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tahsil (definite accusative tahsili, plural tahsiller)
- An act of collecting money, a debt, due etc.; collection.
- An act of learning, getting educated; education.
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تحصیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 507
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تحصیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 349
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tahsil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “tahsil”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tahsil”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4542
Uzbek
Etymology
From Arabic تَحْصِيل (taḥṣīl).
Noun
tahsil (plural tahsillar)