مرابحه
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic مُرَابَحَة (murābaḥa, “usury”).
Noun
editمرابحه • (murabaha)
- usury, an exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates
- usury, the practice of lending money at such rates
Derived terms
edit- مرابحهجی (murabahacı, “usurer”)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: murabaha
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “murabaha”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3308
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرابحه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1143
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرابحه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1797