temayüz

Turkish

Etymology

A 19th century borrowing from Arabic تَمَايُز (tamāyuz), verbal noun of تَمَايَزَ (tamāyaza, “to distinguish, differ”).

Noun

temayüz (definite accusative temayüzü, plural temayüzler)

1. excellence; privilege

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “temâyüz”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1287
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “temayüz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “ميز”, 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