Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تحصیل (taḥṣil, “a making be existent or present, producing, production; an extracting, educing; an obtaining, acquiring, acquisition, especially of learning or science; a collecting (money), collection of revenue”), from Arabic تَحْصِيل (taḥṣīl), verbal noun of حَصَّلَ (ḥaṣṣala, “to produce, to educe, to extract, to raise, to gather”).