تثلیث
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic تَثْلِيث (taṯlīṯ), verbal noun of ثَلَّثَ (ṯallaṯa, “to make into three”).
Noun
تثلیث • (teslis) (definite accusative تثلیثی (teslisi))
- making into three
- (geometry) making into three equal parts
- (Christianity) Trinity
- doing an act three times
Descendants
- Turkish: teslis
Further reading
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tasvib”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1312
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “teslis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تثلیث”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 494