zaten

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ذاتاً (zaten, “personally; essentially”), adverbial accusative of ذَات (ḏāt).

zaten

1. altogether, in general

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• Rhymes: -aːtən

zaten

1. inflection of zitten:
   1. plural past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

From Ottoman Turkish ذاتاً (zaten, “personally; essentially”), adverbial accusative of ذَات (ḏāt). Formally, the Arabic accusative of zat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaːtɛn/

zaten

1. already
2. in any case
3. in fact

• bizzat
• zat

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zaten”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ذاتا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 943
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN