tahassüs
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تحسس, from Arabic تَحَسُّس (taḥassus), verbal noun of تَحَسَّسَ (taḥassasa). The original active sense translated by Redhouse as "listening and inquiring earnestly" became a passive sense of feeling in late Ottoman times.
Noun
tahassüs (definite accusative tahassüsü, plural tahassüsler) (archaic)
- being moved or impressed; feeling, sensation
- Synonyms: duygulanma, hislenme
Derived terms
- tahassüsât
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “tahassüs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1216
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mütehassis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تحسس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 507
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN