tezat
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Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تضاد (teżad, teżat, “a being or becoming opposed to, contrary to, or repugnant to one another, mutual opposition, contrariety, an antithesis”),[1][2] from Arabic تَضَادّ (taḍādd), verbal noun of تَضَادَّ (taḍādda, “to be opposed to one another, to be contradictory, to contradict one another”).[3]
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Noun[edit]
tezat (definite accusative tezadı, plural tezatlar)
- Contrast, contrariness, contradiction.
- Synonyms: karşıtlık, zıtlık, kontrast, çelişki, antagonizma
- (literary) Using two contradictory phrases or statements together; an oxymoron.
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References[edit]
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تضاد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 555
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تضاد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 376
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tezat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading[edit]
- “tezat”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tezat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4792