topyekûn
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طوپ یكون (top yekûn, “a sum total”),[1][2] from طوپ (top) and Arabic يَكُنْ (yakun), from كَانَ (kāna, “to be, to exist”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtop.je.cyn/
- Hyphenation: top‧ye‧kûn
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طوپ یكون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1249
- Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “طوپ یكون”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 889
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yekûn”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “topyekûn”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “topyekûn”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4874
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