mesela

See also: meselâ

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مثلا (mesela), derived from Arabic مَثَلاً (maṯalan, “for example”), adverbial accusative of مَثَل (maṯal, “example”), with loss of the nunation, resulting in mesela instead of expected *meselen, with pronunciation of final /aː/ instead of /en/ (compare Turkish evvela, for Arabic أَوَّلًا (ʔawwalan), or mutlaka, for Arabic مُطْلَقًا (muṭlaqan)). By surface analysis, mesel (“example”) +‎ -an (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me.se.laː/

Adverb

mesela

for example

Synonyms

örneğin

References

Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mesela”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مثلا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1742

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