باتاقخانه
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editA compound of باتاق (batak, “swamp, marsh; den of fraud or violence”) + خانه (hâne, “place”).
Noun
editباتاقخانه • (batakhane)
- gambling den, barrelhouse, honky-tonk, any establishment where fraud takes place
- Synonym: باتاق (batak)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “batakhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 502
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باتاقخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 231