tezkere

English

Etymology

From Turkish tezkere.

Noun

tezkere (plural tezkeres)

1. (Turkey) An official certificate, license, or other such document

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تذكره (tezkire, tezkere), from Arabic تَذْكِرَة (taḏkira).

Noun

tezkere (definite accusative tezkereyi, plural tezkereler)

1. note, memorandum

   Synonym: pusula

2. (government) various forms of official documents: receipts, certificates, permits, (military) discharge papers

   ikamet tezkeresi ― residence permit

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تذكره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 357
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tezkire”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1331
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1171