دعا ایتمك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From دعا (duʼâ, “prayer”) + ایتمك (etmek, “to do; to make”).
Verb
- (intransitive) to pray, to direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being
- Synonym: عبادت ایتمك (ʼibâdet etmek)
Descendants
- Turkish: dua etmek
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dua etmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1298
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دعا ایتمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 573
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Orare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 1216
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دعا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2086
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دعا ایتمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 904