میخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian میخانه (meyxâne, “tavern, pub, bar”).

Noun

میخانه • (meyhane)

1. wineshop, tavern, inn, a place where drinks and food are served

   Synonyms: شربتخانه (şerbethane), میكده (meykede)

Derived terms

• میخانهجی (meyhaneci, “innkeeper, wineshop-keeper”)

Descendants

• Turkish: meyhane
• → Armenian: մեխանա (mexana), մեյխանա (meyxana), միհանա (mihana)
• → Bulgarian: механа́ (mehaná)
• → Macedonian: меана (meana)
• → Romanian: mihamea
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: меха̀на

  Latin script: mehàna

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meyhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3186
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “میخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1255
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Caupona”, 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 163
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “میخانه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5068
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meyhane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “میخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2053

Persian

Etymology

From می (mey) +‎ خانه (xâne).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maj.xɑː.ˈna]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.xɑː.nǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.xɑː.nǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäj.xɑː.nǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäj.xɔː.nǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mejxɒː.né]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäj.χɔ.nǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	mayxāna
Dari reading?	mayxāna
Iranian reading?	meyxâne
Tajik reading?	mayxona

Noun

Dari	میخانه
Iranian Persian
Tajik	майхона

میخانه • (meyxâne) (plural میخانه‌ها (meyxâne-hâ))

1. pub, tavern, bar
2. alehouse

Descendants

• Tajik: майхона (mayxona)
• → Azerbaijani: meyxana
• → Hindi: मैख़ाना (maixānā)
• → Northern Kurdish: meyxane
• → Pashto: ميخانه (mayxāná)
• → Turkmen: meýhana
• → Urdu: میخانہ (maixānā)
• → Uzbek: mayxona
• → Ottoman Turkish: میخانه (meyhane)
  • Turkish: meyhane
  • → Armenian: մեխանա (mexana), մեյխանա (meyxana), միհանա (mihana)
  • → Bulgarian: механа́ (mehaná)
  • → Macedonian: меана (meana)
  • → Romanian: mihamea
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: меха̀на

    Latin script: mehàna