nitelik

Turkish

Etymology

Redhouse[1] lists Ottoman Turkish نته‌لك (nitelik, “essence of a thing”), but the modernized version of the Redhouse dictionary[2] considers the word a post-Ottoman neologism.

Noun

nitelik (definite accusative niteliği, plural nitelikler)

  1. quality

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نته‌لك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2071
  2. Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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