قطعیت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic قَطْعِيَّة (qaṭʕiyya). Compare Azerbaijani qətiyyət (resolution, resoluteness, determination).

Noun

قطعیت • (katiyet)

  1. decisiveness
  2. irrevocability

Descendants

  • Turkish: katiyet

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “kat'iyet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قطعی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 965b

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَطْعِيَّة (qaṭʕiyya).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? qat'iyyat
Dari reading? qat'iyat
Iranian reading? ġat'iyat
Tajik reading? qat'iyat

Noun

قطعیت • (qat'iyyat)

  1. certainty; definitiveness
    Synonyms: صراحت (serâhat), قاطعیت (qâte'iyyat)