cebir

Turkish

Etymology

From the title of al-Khwarizmi's influential work الْكِتَاب الْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب الْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة (al-kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala, “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”), which was derived from Arabic جَبَرَ‎ (jabara, “to set a broken bone, to force, to compel”). This verb shares common origins with Aramaic גבר‎, derived from Proto-West Semitic *gabr-, related to Proto-West Semitic *gabbār-, from a root originally meaning "to be strong, to be superior"[1].

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʒe.biɾ/
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Noun

cebir (definite accusative cebri, plural cebirler)

  1. (archaic) force, compulsion
  2. (mathematics) algebra

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cebir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading
  • cebir in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
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