سیده

See also: سيدة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida, “lady, mistress”), feminine of سَيِّد (sayyid, “master, sir”).

Noun

سیده • (seyyide)

1. lady, madam, mistress, a woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority

   Synonyms: خانم (hanım), قادین (kadın)

2. (Islam) Syeda, an honorific title borne by female descendants of the prophet Muhammad

Descendants

• Turkish: seyyide

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “seyyide”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4183
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “seyyide”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1136
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیده”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 707
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Domina”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 426
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیده”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2729
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیده”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1100