كیمسه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• كمسه (kimse), كمسنه (kimesne)

Etymology

Contraction of كم ایسه (kim ise).

Pronoun

كیمسه • (kimse)

1. somebody
2. anybody; (in negative polarity phrases) nobody

Derived terms

• كیمسه‌سز (kimsesiz)

Descendants

• Turkish: kimse

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیمسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1068
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كمسه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1572
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN