فترت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فَتْرَة (fatra, “interval, interregnum”).

Noun

فترت • (fetret or fitret)

  1. interregnum
    • 1916, Ahmet Refik [Altınay], chapter 2, in قادینلر سلطنتی [Kadınlar saltanatı, Sultanate of Women]‎[1], page 55:
      سلطان عثمان فاجعه‌سندن صوكرا، حكومت فترت ایچنده ایدی.
      Sultan osman faciasından sonra, hükûmet fitret içinde idi.
      After the regicide of Sultan Osman the government was in a state of interregnum.

Descendants

  • Turkish: fetret

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “fitret”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “فترت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 885b
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