Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تتیز (titiz, “cross, irritable, fastidious”), from Proto-Turkic *titiz (“unpleasant”).

titiz

1. difficult
2. rigorous
3. fastidious, particular

   Synonym: mızmız

4. careful, meticulous

• titremek

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “titiz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تتیز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 393