Talk:جمهورية

this is not a natural "arabic word" it is a turkish word based on arabic like the word "tayyare" (aeroplane)(or tayyarah whatever)Girayhankaya 23:17, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

You seem to be confused. — [ R·I·C ] Laurent — 00:48, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

@Fay Freak: Can you explain what you mean by the last sentence of the etymology section so that we can clarify it? I am struggling to understand it. Ketiga123 (talk) 22:35, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

@Ketiga123 Azerbaijan was faster in having a republic (and the first, if we ignore two short-lived ones in the ruins of the Russian Empire). Before I rewrote the etymology the etymology implied that this a term popped up by independent motivation in Arabic countries, but this is untrue and the term has been shaped by Turkey, and perhaps Azerbaijan. You might have observed that there are terms in Azerbaijani with -iyyət and in Turkish with -iyet that are artificially formed in Azerbaijani and/or Turkish and cannot be found in Arabic. There have been some on Wiktionary, I do remember. Fay Freak (talk) 22:41, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Sure. That's why I put 'surface analysis term + iyyet'. But it takes deep knowledge of Arabic to know if a term has never been there, or actually once existed, borrowed from there and subsequently fallen out of use in its source language.

But what I was getting at is that maybe we can re-word the last sentence because as it is now it sounds like Azerbaijan invaded ('overtaken by') the Republic of Tripoli, and managed doing so one year before the latter even was a thing. Ketiga123 (talk) 23:01, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

@Ketiga123 Don’t you confuse overtake and take over here? Fay Freak (talk) 23:21, 16 August 2019 (UTC)