mahıv
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Turkish
Alternative forms
- mahv (obsolete)
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish محو (maḥv, “a causing not to exist, an annihilating”),[1][2] from Arabic مَحْو (maḥw) verbal noun of مَحَا (maḥā, “to erase, to destroy”).[3]
Pronunciation
Noun
mahıv (definite accusative mahvı, plural mahıvlar)
- (obsolete by itself except poetic) destruction, annihilation, ruin, downfall or being destroyed, annihilated
- 2013, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter 27, in Roza Hakmen, transl., La Mancha'lı Yaratıcı Asilzade Don Quijote, volume 1, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, →ISBN, page 237:
- O dönekliğiyle benim mahvımı sabitleştirmek istedi; ben mahvolmaya çalışarak onun arzusunu yerine getirmek isteyeceğim.
- She wanted to fulfill my destruction by her fickleness; I will fulfill her wish by striving to be destroyed.
- (Islam, Sufism) Being freed from mortal imperfections and weaknesses.
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “محو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1768
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “محو”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1132
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mahv”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “mahıv”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mahıv”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3015b
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