FromOttoman Turkishتحسس, fromArabicتَحَسُّس(taḥassus), verbal noun ofتَحَسَّسَ(taḥassasa). The original active sense translated by Redhouse as "listening and inquiring earnestly" became a passive sense of feeling in late Ottoman times.
tahassüs (definite accusativetahassüsü,pluraltahassüsler)(archaic)
- beingmoved orimpressed; feeling, sensation
- Synonyms:duygulanma,hislenme
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “tahassüs”, inOsmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu,page1216
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mütehassis”, inNişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تحسس”, inA Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian,page507
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013),The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık,→ISBN
