Turkish edit

Etymology edit

Redhouse[1] lists Ottoman Turkish نته‌لك (nitelik, essence of a thing), but the modernized version of the Redhouse dictionary[2] considers the word a post-Ottoman neologism.

Noun edit

nitelik (definite accusative niteliği, plural nitelikler)

  1. quality

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نته‌لك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2071
  2. ^ Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN