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 quote)
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- 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 at Türk Dil Kurumu