imalat

Turkish

Alternative forms

• imalât

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اعمالات (imalat), plural of اعمال (imal), from Arabic إِعْمَال (ʔiʕmāl), verbal noun of أَعْمَلَ (ʔaʕmala).

Noun

imalat (definite accusative imalatı, plural imalatlar)

1. manufactured goods; industrial production
   • 1940 July 24, headline in Hakikat, page 1:

     İngilterenin tayyare imalâtı Almanyadan daha fazla

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• imalathane

Further reading

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “i'mâlât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 516
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “imal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 532