mukabele

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مقابله (muḳābele, “a being or becoming opposite, facing another, meeting any action with its like, a reward or retaliation”),^[1] from Arabic مُقَابَلَة (muqābala, “interview, meeting, encounter, opposition”), verbal noun of قَابَلَ (qābala, “to be opposite, to confront, to face, to meet”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /mu.kaːbeˈle/
• Hyphenation: mu‧ka‧be‧le

mukabele (definite accusative mukabeleyi, plural mukabeleler)

1. The act of responding, reciprocating; a response.

   Synonym: karşılık

2. The act of standing up, rising against.
3. (Islam) Qur'an reciting activity where one person recites either from memory or from the book and others participate by following from the book.

• “mukabele”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mukabele”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3294