tesadüfen
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تصادفاً (tesādüfen),[1] from Arabic تَصَادُفًا (taṣādufan) adverbial accusative of تَصَادُف (taṣāduf, “coincidence”), verbal noun of تَصَادَفَ (taṣādafa, “to meet by chance”).[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
tesadüfen
- by chance, as a result of a coincidence, accidentally
- Synonym: tesadüf eseri
- Travnik benim tesadüfen keşfettiğim bir şehir. ― Travnik is a city I discovered as a result of a coincidence.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “تَصادُفاً”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 409
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tesadüf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading[edit]
- “tesadüfen”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tesadüfen”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4763