kitabevi

Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

kitab evi (misspelling)
kitap evi (misspelling)
kitapevi (misspelling)

Etymology edit

From kitap (“book”) +‎ ev (“house”). The traditional suffix for such formations ("building where ...") is -hane, but it had already been used to form kütüphane (“library”).

Noun edit

kitabevi (definite accusative kitabeviyi, plural kitabeviler)

bookshop, bookstore

References edit

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kitabevi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2692