sehven

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سهواً (sehven),[1][2] from Arabic سَهْوًا (sahwan) adverbial accusative of سَهْو (sahw), from سَهَا (sahā, “to neglect”).[3]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈseh.ven/
Hyphenation: seh‧ven

Adverb

sehven

(archaic) mistakenly, by mistake, inadvertently
Synonyms: yanlışlıkla, kazara, (arhaic) ezkaza, (archaic) kazaen

Related terms

sehiv

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سهواً”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1098
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سهواً”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 705
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “sehiv”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

“sehven”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sehven”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4123

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