kıraathane
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish قرائتخانه (ḳırāʾatḫāne, “a public reading room, a coffee house where newspapers are kept”),[1][2] from Arabic قِرَاءَة (qirāʔa, “reading”) + Persian خانه (xâne, “house”), verbal noun of قَرَأَ (qaraʔa, “to read, to recite”),[3] equivalent to compound of kıraat + hane.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkıraathane (definite accusative kıraathaneyi, plural kıraathaneler)
- A coffeehouse.
- (archaic) A furnished, spacious coffeehouse that keeps newspapers, periodicals, books for customers to read.
Declension
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرائتخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1444
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرائتخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 953
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıraat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “kıraathane”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıraathane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2615