صحیه

See also: صحية and ضحية

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Derived from Arabic صِحِّيّ (ṣiḥḥiyy, “sanitary; healthy”).

Noun

صحیه • (sıhhiye)

1. health care, the prevention, treatment and management of illness
2. any institution or administration that handles health affairs

Adjective

صحیه • (sıhhıye)

1. sanitary, of, or relating to health

Descendants

• Turkish: sıhhiye

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sıhhıye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4194
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صحی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 757a