temel

From Proto-Celtic *temeslos, from Proto-Indo-European *témHeslo- (“darkness”) (compare Sanskrit तमिस्रा (támisrā, “dark night”), Old High German demar (“twilight”), Latin tenebrae (“darkness”), from *temH-).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̠ʲe.β̃ʲəl/
  • (Blasse) [ˈt̠ʲe.β̃ʲel]
  • (Griffith) [ˈt̠ʲe.β̃ʲəl]

temel m (genitive temil)

1. darkness
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 30^a3

     Amal nád n-airigther ⁊ nád fintar a ndu·gníther hi suidi, sic ba in ḟortgidiu ⁊ ba hi temul du·gníth Saul cona muntair intleda ⁊ erelca fri Dauid.

     As what is done in this is not perceived and discovered, so it was covertly and it was in darkness that Saul with his people was making snares and ambushes against David.

• Middle Irish: teimel
  • Irish: teimheal

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “teimel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Ottoman Turkish تمل (temel), from Greek θεμέλιο (themélio, “foundation, base”), from Ancient Greek θεμέλιος (themélios, “belonging to the foundation”).

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temel (definite accusative temeli, plural temeller)

1. fundament, basics
2. ground, foundation

   Evin temelleri sökülüyor gibi sarsılıyor.

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3. background

• temel almak
• temel atmak, temelatmak
• temelli

temel

1. basic, fundamental

   Devletin temel kanununun adı Anayasa'dır.

   The state's fundamental law is called the constitution.

• temel bakım
• temel bilimler
• temel eğitim