dalalet
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish ضلالت (dalalet, “being astray or lost; error”), from Arabic ضَلَالَة (ḍalāla), verbal noun of ضَلَّ (ḍalla, “to go astray; to lose”). The initial d is unusual; more often ض (ḍ) in Arabic becomes z when borrowed into in Turkish.
Noun
editdalalet (definite accusative dalaleti, plural dalaletler) (dated)
References
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “dalalet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضلالت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1213
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN