different between defter vs deter

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

defter

1. comparative form of deft: more deft

Etymology 2

From Turkish defter, from Arabic ???????? (daftar), from Aramaic ???????? (defter), from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra). Doublet of letter.

Noun

defter (plural defters)

1. (historical) A type of tax register that was used in the Ottoman Empire.

Related terms

• defterdar

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (daftar), from Aramaic ???????? (defter), from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra).

Noun

defter

1. notebook

Declension

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?f?t??/

Noun

defter f

1. notebook

Synonyms

• lênûsk

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• t?fter

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (defter), from Arabic ???????? (daftar), from Aramaic ???????? (defter), from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra).

Noun

d?fter m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. notebook
2. (accounting) books, accounting records, register
3. (historical) defter, Ottoman tax register

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (daftar), from Aramaic ???????? (defter), from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthéra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [def?tæ?]
• Hyphenation: def?ter

Noun

defter (definite accusative defteri, plural defterler)

1. notebook

Declension

Derived terms

• amel defteri
• büyük defteri
• defteri dürülmek
• defter-i kebir

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?terre? (“deter, discourage”), from de (“from”) + terre? (“I frighten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

deter (third-person singular simple present deters, present participle deterring, simple past and past participle deterred)

1. (transitive) To prevent something from happening.
2. (transitive) To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.

3. (transitive) To distract someone from something.
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 10.

     we have in following enquiry, attempted to throw some light upon subjects, from which uncertainty has hitherto deterred the wise

Synonyms

• (To persuade someone to not do something): dissuade

Related terms

• deterrent
• deterrence

Translations

Further reading

• deter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• deter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• deter at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• treed

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese det?er, from Latin d?tin?re, present active infinitive of d?tine? (“detain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de?te?]

Verb

deter (first-person singular present deteño, first-person singular preterite detiven, past participle detido)

1. to detain, stop
2. to stay
3. to arrest

Conjugation

Related terms

References

• “deteer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “detee” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “deter” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “deter” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “deter” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese det?er, from Latin d?tin?re, present active infinitive of d?tine? (“detain”).

Verb

deter (first-person singular present indicative detenho, past participle detido)

1. to stop, arrest, detain, restrain
2. to deter
3. to withhold

Conjugation

Related terms

• detenção
• ter