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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تذلیل (teẕlil, “a making to be submissive and humble”),[1][2] from Arabic تَذْلِيلْ (taḏlīl), verbal noun of ذَلَّلَ (ḏallala, “to degrade, to make humble, to defeat, to overpower”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tezˈliːl/
- Hyphenation: tez‧lil
Noun
tezlil (definite accusative tezlili, plural tezliller)
- (archaic) An act of humiliating, disgracing, looking down on.
- Synonyms: aşağılama, hor görme, tenzil, istihkar
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تذلیل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 524
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تذلیل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 357
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zelil”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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