azami
Japanese
editRomanization
editazami
Turkish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish اعظم (azam), from Arabic أَعْظَم (ʔaʕẓam, “greatest”). The final vowel is a 20th century Turkish addition.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editazami
- greatest, maximum
- 1940 August 27, “Odun narhı”, in Vakit:
- Komisyon azasından bazılarının: "Biz azamî fiyat tayin ettik. Vaziyeti biraz da serbest rekabete bıraktık."
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “azami”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اعظم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 143
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN