tahrik

(Anglès)

  1. An act of arousing sexual desire; excitation, stimulation.
  2. An act of inciting someone into doing something sinister; sedition, provocation, instigation.
  3. (obsolete) An act of putting into motion, setting off on the road.

Freqüència

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/tahˈɾic/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تحریك (taḥrik, “a moving, causing to move or vibrate, inciting, impelling, instigating, a medicine's moving the bowels”), from Arabic تَحْرِيك (taḥrīk), verbal noun of حَرَّكَ (ḥarraka, “to move, to put in motion, to activate”). Cognates with Azerbaijani təhrik.

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