tezat

== Turkish == === Etymology === Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تضاد (teżad, teżat, “a being or becoming opposed to, contrary to, or repugnant to one another, mutual opposition, contrariety, an antithesis”), from Arabic تَضَادّ (taḍādd), verbal noun of تَضَادَّ (taḍādda, “to be opposed to one another, to be contradictory, to contradict one another”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /teˈzat/, (definite accusative) /teˈzaːdɯ/ Hyphenation: te‧zat === Noun === tezat (definite accusative tezadı, plural tezatlar) Contrast, contrariness, contradiction. Synonyms: karşıtlık, zıtlık, kontrast, çelişki, antagonizma (literary) Using two contradictory phrases or statements together; an oxymoron. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “tezat”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “tezat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4792