ciddiyet
Appearance
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جدیت (ciddiyet, “seriousness, severity, solemnity”), from Arabic جِدِّيَّة (jiddiyya), from جِدِّيّ (jiddiyy, “serious, grave, earnest”), from جَدَّ (jadda, “to be new, to be serious or earnest”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ciddiyet (definite accusative ciddiyeti, plural ciddiyetler)
- seriousness, solemnity, earnestness
- (figuratively) (of an event, situation etc.) severity, gravity
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ciddi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “ciddiyet”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ciddiyet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 812