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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اصطلاح (ıstılah), from Arabic اِصْطِلَاح (iṣṭilāḥ). Compare Azerbaijani istilah.
Noun
ıstılah (definite accusative ıstılahı, plural ıstılahlar)
- technical term; idiom
- a high-flown word
Derived terms
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ıstılah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اصطلاح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 128
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 504