matbaa
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish مطبعه (matba'a), probably an Ottoman coinage from Arabic طَبَعَ (ṭabaʕa).
Noun
editmatbaa (definite accusative matbaayı, plural matbaalar)
- printing press; printing house; printer (business)
Derived terms
edit- matbaacı (“printer (person)”)
- matbaacılık (“printing”)
References
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “matbaa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مطبعه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1888
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 737