teşebbüs

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تشبث, from Arabic تَشَبُّث (tašabbuṯ), verbal noun of تَشَبَّثَ (tašabbaṯa, “to be stubborn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.ʃebˈbys/
• Hyphenation: te‧şeb‧büs

Noun

teşebbüs (definite accusative teşebbüsü, plural teşebbüsler)

1. effort, initiative, a determined start [from 17th c.]
2. attempt [from 20th c.]

   Synonym: girişim

Usage notes

• The action being attempted is in the dative.

Derived terms

• teşebbüs etmek

Related terms

Turkish terms derived from the Arabic root ش ب ث (0 c, 1 e)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تشبث”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 370
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “teşebbüs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تشبث”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 549
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• “teşebbüs”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “teşebbüs”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı