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

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