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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ضایعات, formed in Ottoman as a pseudo-Arabic plural from ضَائِع (ḍāʔiʕ), active participle of ضَاعَ (ḍāʕa).
Noun
zayiat (definite accusative zayiatı, plural zayiatlar)
- (archaic) losses
- (military, archaic) casualties
- zayiat vermek ― to take casualties
- zayiat verdirmek ― to inflict casualties
- 1940 May 14, headline in Tasviri Efkâr:
Müstevliler çok ağır zayiat veriyorlar- Invaders suffer very heavy losses
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zayi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضائعات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1205
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1275