İstimrâr

İstimrâr is continuation: the condition of something that keeps going. It does not name a single act, but what happens when an act refuses to end and becomes duration.

On a dictionary page that has itself persisted for more than a century, the word becomes almost self-referential.

Original one-of-a-kind artwork from the Mestûr collection.
Iranian ink on an original 125-year-old Kâmus-ı Türkî page.
Page 104 · Left column.

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