levazım

Turkish

Alternative forms
  • levâzım

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish لوازم (levazım), from Arabic لَوَازِم (lawāzim), plural of لَازِم (lāzim, “necessary”).

Noun

levazım (definite accusative levazımı, plural levazımlar)

  1. necessities
    Synonym: gereç
  2. (military) supplies
  • levazımat

References
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “levazım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لوازم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1642
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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