معیت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مَعِيَّة (maʕiyya).

Noun

معیت • (ma'iyet)

1. an official's entourage

Descendants

• Turkish: maiyet

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معیت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1917
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 724