teşebbüs

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تشبث, from Arabic تَشَبُّث (tašabbuṯ), verbal noun of تَشَبَّثَ (tašabbaṯa, “to be stubborn”).

Noun

teşebbüs (definite accusative teşebbüsü, plural teşebbüsler)

  1. effort, initiative, a determined start [from 17th c.]
  2. attempt [from 20th c.]

Derived terms

References
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تشبث”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 370
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teşebbüs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تشبث”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 549
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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