تمل

See also: ثمل and بمل

Arabic

Verb

تمل (form I)

  1. تَمِلْ (tamil) /ta.mil/: inflection of مَالَ (māla):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
  2. تُمَلْ (tumal) /tu.mal/: inflection of مَالَ (māla):
    1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
    2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Greek θεμέλιο (themélio, foundation, base), from Ancient Greek θεμέλιος (themélios, belonging to the foundation).

Noun

تمل • (temel)

  1. (architecture) foundation, base, underbuilding, that upon which anything is founded
    Synonyms: اساس (esas), اصل (asl), بنیاد (bunyad), قاعده (kaʿide)
  2. (figuratively) fundament, basis, principle, an underlying condition or circumstance
    Synonym: اساس (esas)

Derived terms

  • تمل آتمق (temel atmak, to lay a foundation)
  • تمل طوتمق (temel tutmak, to become firm in its place)
  • تملسز (temelsız, without a foundation)
  • تمللشمك (temelleşmek, to become regularly established)
  • تمللنمك (temellenmek, to acquire a foundation)
  • تمللو (temelli, possessed of a foundation)

Descendants

  • Turkish: temel
  • Armenian: թէմէլ (tʻēmēl), թա̈մա̈լ (tʻämäl)

Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “temel1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4718
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تمل”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 166b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تمل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 403
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fundamentum”, 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[3], Vienna, column 629
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تمل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 1396
  • Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 45
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “temel”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تمل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 594