tahminen
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تخمینا (taḫminā)[1][2] or تخمیناً (taḫminen, “as an estimate, about”),[3] from Arabic تَخْمِينًا (taḵmīnan) adverbial accusative of تَخْمِين (taḵmīn, “guess, speculation”), verbal noun of خَمَّنَ (ḵammana).[4]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]tahminen
- approximately, presumably, more or less
- Synonyms: takriben, yaklaşık olarak
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تخمینا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 518
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تخمینا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 355
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “تخمیناً”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 389
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tahmin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “tahminen”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tahminen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4539