bahane
Turkish
editAlternative forms
edit- mahana (colloquial)
Etymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish بهانه (bahāne, mahāna, māna, “a pretext, an excuse, reputed blemish, defect or fault”),[1][2] from Classical Persian بهانه (bahâne, “excuse”).[3]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbahane (definite accusative bahaneyi, plural bahaneler)
Declension
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بهانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 415
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بهانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 298
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bahane”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “bahane”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bahane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 435