tahrikât

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تحریكات‎ (taḥrikāt), plural of تحریك‎ (taḥrik, “a moving, causing to move or vibrate, inciting, impelling, instigating, a medicine's moving the bowels”)[1][2], in the form of a plural of Arabic تَحْرِيك‎ (taḥrīk) but possibly coined in Ottoman Turkish or Persian.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tah.ɾiːˈcat/, (definite accusative) /tah.ɾiːcaːˈtɯ/
  • Hyphenation: tah‧ri‧kat

Noun

tahrikât (definite accusative tahrikâtı, uncountable)

  1. (archaic) plural of tahrik
  2. (archaic) provocations, incitements

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تحریك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 506
  2. Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تحریك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 349

Further reading
  • tahrikât in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tahrikât”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4541
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.