كساد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَسَاد (kasād, “unsalableness; economic depression”), verbal noun of كَسَدَ (kasada, “to run not well, to be stagnant”).

Noun

كساد • (kesad)

1. unsaleableness, the state or quality of being unsellable or unmarketable
2. (economics) stagnation, depression, a period of major economic contraction

Derived terms

• كسادلق (kesadlık, “time or condition of stagnation”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kesat
• → Albanian: qesat
• → Armenian: քէսատ (kʻēsat), քյասադ (kʻyasad)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kesat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2565
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kesâd”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 611
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كساد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3946
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kesat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كساد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1546