tahassüs

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تحسس, from Arabic تَحَسُّس (taḥassus), verbal noun of تَحَسَّسَ (taḥassasa). The original active sense translated by Redhouse as "listening and inquiring earnestly" became a passive sense of feeling in late Ottoman times.

Noun

tahassüs (definite accusative tahassüsü, plural tahassüsler) (archaic)

being moved or impressed; feeling, sensation
Synonyms: duygulanma, hislenme

Derived terms

tahassüsât

References

Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tahassüs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1216
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mütehassis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تحسس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 507
Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

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