şahsen

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Arabic شَخْصًا (šaḵṣan).

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: şah‧sen

Adverb

şahsen

  1. personally

References

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish شخصاً (şahsan), from Arabic شَخْصًا (šaḵṣan), adverbial accusative of شَخْص (šaḵṣ, “person, individual”). By surface analysis, şahıs +‎ -en.

Adverb

şahsen

  1. personally
  2. in person

References
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “şahıs”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شخصا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1118
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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