temayüz
Turkish
Etymology
A 19th century borrowing from Arabic تَمَايُز (tamāyuz), verbal noun of تَمَايَزَ (tamāyaza, “to distinguish, differ”).
Noun
temayüz (definite accusative temayüzü, plural temayüzler)
- excellence; privilege
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “temâyüz”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1287
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “temayüz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Wehr, Hans (1960), “ميز”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN