ذاتا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of Arabic ذات (ḏāt).

Adverb

ذاتاً • (zaten)

  1. (literally) personally; in person
  2. already
  3. in any case
  4. in fact

Descendants

  • Turkish: zaten
  • Armenian: զաթեն / զաթէն (zatʻen), զաթը (zatʻə), զաթի (zatʻi)

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “zaten”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ذاتا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 603