Middle Ottoman

English

Alternative forms

• Middle Ottoman Turkish

Proper noun

Middle Ottoman

1. A register of the Ottoman Turkish language typical to the time from 1501–1800 and later a chosen register, particularly seen as exclusive to an educated elite, as marked by complex syntax (lacking punctuation) and largely Persianized and Arabicized vocabulary and sentence structure.

Synonyms

• Classical Ottoman Turkish

Coordinate terms

• Old Ottoman / Old Anatolian Turkish, New Ottoman

Translations

the Turkish language in the middle period of the Ottoman Empire, of many lexical and syntactic borrowings

• Finnish: klassinen osmaninturkki
• German: Mittelosmanisch n, klassisch Osmanisch-Türkisch n
• Swedish: medelosmanska c
• Turkish: Klasik Osmanlıca, Klâsik Osmanlıca, Orta Osmanlıca