كتبخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A compound of the plural of كتاب (kitab, “book”) +‎ خانه (hâne, “place”).

Noun

كتبخانه • (kütübhâne)

1. library, an institution which holds books
2. bookcase, a piece of furniture for the storage of books
3. bookshop, a shop that sells books

Descendants

• Turkish: kütüphane

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كتبخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1011
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كتبخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1526