müsademe

Turkish

Alternative forms

• musademe

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مصادمه (müsademe), from Arabic مُصَادَمَة (muṣādama), verbal noun of صَادَمَ (ṣādama, “to strike, resist, clash”).

Noun

müsademe (definite accusative müsademeyi, plural müsademeler) (archaic)

1. clash; collision

   Synonyms: çarpışma, tokuşma

2. (military) skirmish
   • 1939 September 3, “Leh tebliği [Polish report]”, in Cumhuriyet, page 1:

     Koridor üzerinde ve şarkî Prusyadaki musademeler hudud civarındadır.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “müsademe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3391
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “müsâdeme”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 879
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “صدم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 799