تألیف

• تالیف (teʼlif).

Borrowed from Arabic تَأْلِيف (taʔlīf).

تألیف • (teʼlif) (definite accusative تألیفی (teʼlifi), plural تألیفات (teʼlifat))

1. reconciliation, conciliation, rapprochement

   تألیف قلوب ― teʼlif-i kulûb ― reconciliation of hearts

2. composition, especially of a book
   • 1521, Piri Reis, کتاب بحریه [Kitab-ı Bahriye, Book of the Sea]‎^[1]:

     دَرْبَیَانِ سَبَبِ تَالِیفِ كِتَابْ
     وَسَبَبِ تَالِیفِ كِتَابْ بُودُرْكِیمْ حَضِرَتِ پَاشَاهِ عَالَمْ پَنَاهُكْ آسِتَانَهِٔ دَوْلَتْ آشِیَانِنَه وَدَرِ سَعَادَتْ بِخْشِنَه طَوَایِفِ دَهْرِ كَامِللَرٖی اَنْوَاعِ فُنُونْدَنْ تُحْفَه‌لَرْ كَتُورْمِشْلَرْدُرْكِمْ دَوْلَتْلُو خُدَاوَنْدِكَارِك هِمَّتِ بٖی‌هَمْتَاسٖیلَه عَالَمْدَه وُجُودْ بُولُوبْ نَامِ نِشَانْ صَاحِبْلَرٖی اُولَه‌لَرْ

     der beyan-ı sebeb-i teʼlif-i kitab
     ve-sebeb-i teʼlif-i kitab budurkim hazireti paşah-i ʼalem penahuñ asitane-i devlet aşiyanına ve-der-i saʼadet bahşine tavayif-i dehr-i kâmilleri envaʼ-ı fünundan tuhfeler getürmişlerdürkim devletlü hudavendigârıñ himmet-i bi-hemtasıyla ʼalemde vücud bulub nam-ı nişan sahibleri olalar.

     the reason of the composition of the book
     the reason of the composition of this book is thus: the most perfect people of the world brought gifts of various sciences to the heavenly state city of the world's sultan and to its gate of happiness, so that with the grace and favor of the sultan, their names were made eternal in the world.

• Turkish: telif

• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “telif”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian