خطابا
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic خِطَابًا (ḵiṭāban), adverbial accusative of خِطَاب (ḵiṭāb).
Postposition edit
خطابا • (hitaben)
- (with dative) to (identifying the audience of a speech or the recipient of a writing)
- 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk[1], page 103:
- ایلولك اون برنجی كونی ، پادشاهه خطاباً بر تلغرافنامه حاضرلاندی ؛ […]
- Eylülün on birinci günü, padişaha hitaben bir telgrafname hazırlandı; […]
- On July 11th a telegram to the Padishah was prepared; […]
Descendants edit
- Turkish: hitaben
Further reading edit
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “hitaben”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN