Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic اِسْتِعَانَة (istiʕāna), verbal noun of اِسْتَعَانَ (istaʕāna).

Noun

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استعانه (isti'ane)

  1. asking for help or assistance

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “استعانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 81b
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “istiane”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN