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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تكاثف, from Arabic تَكَاثُف (takāṯuf), verbal noun of تَكَاثَفَ (takāṯafa, “to grow denser; to thicken”).
Noun
tekâsüf (definite accusative tekâsüfü, plural tekâsüfler) (archaic)
- coming together, concentrating, becoming dense
1938 November 13, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, quotee, Cumhuriyet, page 1:Bir milletin muvaffakiyatı, mutlaka kuvayi umumiyei milliyenin bir istikamette tahaşşüd ve tekâsüf etmesile mümkündür.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (physics) condensation
See also
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تكاثف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 393
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكاثف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 580
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “كثف”, 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