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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic اِسْتِوَاء (istiwāʔ, “equality, levelness”), verbal noun of اِسْتَوَى (istawā, “to be or become equal, flat, or plain”).
Noun
استوا • (istiva)
- equality, uniformity, levelness, the fact of being equal
- Synonym: دوزلك (düzlük)
- straightness, the result or product of being straight
- perpendicularity, the condition of being perpendicular
- maturity, full-grownness, the quality of being mature
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “istiva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2245
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “istivâ”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 556
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “استوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 86
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “استوا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 206
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “istiva”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “استوا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 105