تنته

See also: پنبه

Arabic

Verb

تَنْتَهِ • (tantahi) (form VIII) /tan.ta.hi/

1. inflection of اِنْتَهَى (intahā):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tenda (“curtain; awning, canopy”).

Noun

تنته • (tente or tenta) (definite accusative تنته‌یی (tenteyi, tentayı), plural تنته‌لر (tenteler, tentalar))

1. awning, canopy, overhang, marquee, a cover extended over a place as a shelter from sun or rain

   Synonym: صایوان (sayvan)

2. small tent, any small pavilion made of skins or canvas used for sheltering people from the weather

   Synonym: چادرجق (çadırcık)

Descendants

• Turkish: tente
• → Armenian: թէնթէ (tʻēntʻē)

Further reading

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• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1951), “թէնթէ”, in Ewropakan pʻoxaṙeal baṙer hayerēni mēǰ [European Loanwords in Armenian] (Azgayin matenadaran; 166) (in Armenian), published from the author's manuscript submitted in 1921, Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, pages 79–80
• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “تنته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 491
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tente”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 5, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4737
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “تنته”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 167
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تنته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 406
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tente”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تنته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 597