Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Persian بر (bar, on) and هوا (havâ, air).

Adjective

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برهوا (berhava)

  1. blown away, blown up (literally into the air, or figuratively), destroyed

Descendants

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  • Turkish: berhava

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برهوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 263
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “berhava”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN