# تواتر
## Arabic

* Root
* و ت ر (w t r)
* 5 terms

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.waː.ta.ra/

#### Verb

تَوَاتَرَ • (tawātara) VI (non-past يَتَوَاتَرُ (yatawātaru), verbal noun تَوَاتُر (tawātur))
* to follow in uninterrupted succession
* to repeat, to recur

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

Verbal noun of تَوَاتَرَ (tawātara).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.waː.tur/

#### Noun

تَوَاتُر • (tawātur) m
* verbal noun of تَوَاتَرَ (tawātara) (form VI)
* (Islam) narration in succession (without interruption)
* (Islam) consensus of various reporters of a tradition

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: təvatür
* → Persian: تواتر
** → Urdu: تَواتُر (tavātur)
* → Ottoman Turkish: تواتر (tevâtür)
** Turkish: tevatür
** → Romanian: tevatură

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

تواتر (form III)
* تُوَاتِرُ (tuwātiru) /tu.waː.ti.ru/: inflection of وَاتَرَ (wātara):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative
** third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative
* تُوَاتَرُ (tuwātaru) /tu.waː.ta.ru/: inflection of وَاتَرَ (wātara):
** second-person masculine singular non-past passive indicative
** third-person feminine singular non-past passive indicative
* تُوَاتِرَ (tuwātira) /tu.waː.ti.ra/: inflection of وَاتَرَ (wātara):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive
** third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive
* تُوَاتَرَ (tuwātara) /tu.waː.ta.ra/: inflection of وَاتَرَ (wātara):
** second-person masculine singular non-past passive subjunctive
** third-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive
* تُوَاتِرْ (tuwātir) /tu.waː.tir/: inflection of وَاتَرَ (wātara):
** second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
** third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
* تُوَاتَرْ (tuwātar) /tu.waː.tar/: inflection of وَاتَرَ (wātara):
** second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
** third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَوَاتُر (tawātur, “narration in succession”).

### Noun

تواتر • (tevâtür) (definite accusative تواتری (tevâtürü), plural تواترات (tevâtürât))
* rumor, hearsay, gossip, talk, information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated
    Synonym: شائعه (şaʼyiʼa)
* (Islam) tawatur, the highest level of credibility of a hadith, which is supported by consensus and various confirmatory channels

#### Derived terms

* بورسه تواتراتی (borsa tevâtürâtı, “stock exchange rumors”)
* تواتر ایتمك (tevâtür etmek, “to be talked in public”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: tevatür
* → Romanian: tevatură

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تواتر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 494
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tevatür”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4782
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “tevâtür”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1602
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تواتر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 409
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Consectatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 250
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تواتر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 1444
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tevatür”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تواتر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 603