münebbih

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish منبه (münebbih), from Arabic مُنَبِّه (munabbih), from the verb نَبَّهَ (nabbaha, “to awaken, rouse, stimulate”).

Noun

münebbih (definite accusative münebbihi, plural münebbihler) (obsolete)

1. (medicine) stimulus; stimulant
2. alarm clock

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “münebbih”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3375
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “münebbih”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 868
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “منبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1228
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “نبه”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN