رحی

See also: رحى

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَحًى (raḥan, “millstone”).

Noun

رحی • (raha) (plural ارحا (erha))

1. mill, a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains or seeds

   Synonyms: آسیا (asya), دگرمن (değirmen)

2. millstone, a large and round stone used for grinding grain

   Synonym: دگرمن طاشی (değirmen taşı)

Descendants

• Turkish: raha

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “raha”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3930
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “rahâ”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1046
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mola”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1067
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رحی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2294
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رحی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 968