اقتباس

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic اِقْتِبَاس (iqtibās), verbal noun of اِقْتَبَسَ (iqtabasa).

Noun

اقتباس • (iktibas)

  1. borrowing, extracting (knowledge), taking advantage of
  2. quoting
  3. adapting (a literary work)
  • اقتباساً (iktibasen)

Descendants
  • Turkish: ikitbas

References
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اقتباس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 122b
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “iktibas”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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