terakkiyat

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish ترقیات, from Arabic تَرَقِّيَات (taraqqiyāt), plural of تَرَقٍّ (taraqqin), verbal noun of تَرَقَّى (taraqqā, “to progress”). Terakki comes from the singular.

Noun[edit]

terakkiyat (definite accusative terakkiyatı, uncountable) (archaic)

  1. advances, progress, improvements

References[edit]

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترقیات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 535
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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