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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تقریبا (takriba), from Arabic تَقْرِيبًا (taqrīban), adverbial accusative of تَقْرِيب (taqrīb). By surface analysis, takrip + -en (adverbial suffix).
Adverb
takriben
- approximately, about
- Synonym: yaklaşık olarak
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “takrip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تقریبا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 576
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN