karabasan
Turkish edit
Alternative forms edit
- kara basan (misspelling)
Etymology edit
Compound of kara (“evil, wicked”) + basan (“one that presses”). For semantic development, compare Finnish painajainen.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
karabasan (definite accusative karabasanı, plural karabasanlar)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- “karabasan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “karabasan”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı