استیضاح

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Ottoman Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic اِسْتِيضَاح (istīḍāḥ), verbal noun of اِسْتَوْضَحَ (istawḍaḥa).

Noun[edit]

استیضاح (istizah)

  1. (politics) questioning, demanding an explanation (in Parliament)

Descendants[edit]

  • Turkish: istizah

References[edit]

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “استیضاح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 107
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN