tahassun

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تحصن, from Arabic تَحَصُّن (taḥaṣṣun), verbal noun of تَحَصَّنَ (taḥaṣṣana, “to fortify oneself, to be protected”).

Noun

tahassun (definite accusative tahassunu, plural tahassunlar) (archaic)

1. withdrawing to a stronghold, fortifying, entrenching
   • 1937 June 18, “Tuncelinde askerî harekât devam ediyor [Military operations continue in Tuncel]”, in Cumhuriyet, page 1:

     Takbriben 1000-1500 silâhlı kadar tahmin edilen asiler tamamen Kutu deresine tahassun etmişlerdir.

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Derived terms

• tahassun etmek

See also

• sığınma

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tahassun”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4535
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تحصن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 507
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN