Eventually, he decided upon the Arabic word "fuzuli"which literally means "impertinent, improper, unnecessary"because he "knew that this title would not be acceptable to anyone else".Despite the name's pejorative meaning, however, it contains a double meaningwhat is called "tevriyye" () in Ottoman Divan poetry as Fuzuli himself explains: "I was possessed of all the arts and sciences and found a pen name that also implies this sense since in the dictionary "fuzul" () is given as a plural of "fazl" (; 'learning') and has the same rhythm as "'ulum" (; 'sciences') and "funun" (; 'arts')".
