بسیط

See also: بسيط and تشيط

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَسِيط (basīṭ, “wide, extended; easy, simple”).

Adjective

بسیط • (basît)

1. extended, expanded, spread out, far apart, stretched out, lengthened by pulling

   Synonyms: منتشر (münteşir), یایلمش (yayılmış)

2. easy, simple, elementary, uncomplicated, lacking complexity, requiring little skill or effort

   Synonym: قولای (kolay)

3. broad, wide, open, extended, in the sense of diffused, not physically drawn together

   Synonym: ككیش (geniş)

4. simple, plain, basic, unembellished, lacking adornment, ornamentation, or additions

   Synonyms: بیاغی (bayağı), ساده (sade)

Descendants

• Turkish: basit

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “basit2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 478
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “basît”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 89
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بسیط”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 266
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Simplex”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1557
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بسیط”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 826
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “basit”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بسیط”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 365
• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “بسیط”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 293