kitabevi

Turkish

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

kitabevi (definite accusative kitabeviyi, plural kitabeviler)

1. bookshop, bookstore

References

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