mukaddime

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقدمه (mukaddeme, mukaddime),[1][2][3] from Arabic مُقَدِّمَة (muqaddima).[4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mu.kad.diˈme/
  • Hyphenation: mu‧kad‧di‧me

Noun

mukaddime (definite accusative mukaddimeyi, plural mukaddimeler)

  1. (archaic, literary) introduction, preface
  2. (archaic, figuratively) forerunner (precursor, harbinger)
  • mukaddem (“anterior; before, ago”)
  • mukaddema (“before”)

References
  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مقدمه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1942
  2. Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مقدمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1208
  3. Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “مقدمه”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1290
  4. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gamze”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading
  • “mukaddime”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mukaddime”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3295
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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