tekâsüf

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish تكاثف, from Arabic تَكَاثُف (takāṯuf), verbal noun of تَكَاثَفَ (takāṯafa, “to grow denser; to thicken”).

Noun[edit]

tekâsüf (definite accusative tekâsüfü, plural tekâsüfler) (archaic)

  1. coming together, concentrating, becoming dense
    • 1938 November 13, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, quotee, Cumhuriyet, page 1:
      Bir milletin muvaffakiyatı, mutlaka kuvayi umumiyei milliyenin bir istikamette tahaşşüd ve tekâsüf etmesile mümkündür.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (physics) condensation

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تكاثف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 393
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تكاثف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 580
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “كثف”, 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
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