tenezzül

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تنزل (tenezzül), from Arabic تَنَزُّل (tanazzul), verbal noun of تَنَزَّلَ (tanazzala, “to descend; to drop”).

Noun

tenezzül (definite accusative tenezzülü, plural tenezzüller)

reduction
- 1939 August 8, “Ekmek meselesi”, in İkdam:
  Borsadan alınan son haberlere göre son hafta içinde buğday fiatlerinde bir mikdar tenezzül olmuştur.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
condescension

References

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tenezzül”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تنزل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 598
“tenezzül”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

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