terakkiyat
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ترقیات, from Arabic تَرَقِّيَات (taraqqiyāt), plural of تَرَقٍّ (taraqqin), verbal noun of تَرَقَّى (taraqqā, “to progress”). Terakki comes from the singular.
Noun
terakkiyat (definite accusative terakkiyatı, uncountable) (archaic)
- advances, progress, improvements
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ترقیات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 535
- The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, 2013, →ISBN