mezbaha
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish مذبح (mezbah), مذبحه (mezbaha), from Arabic مَذْبَح (maḏbaḥ), مَذْبَحَة (maḏbaḥa).
Noun
editmezbaha (definite accusative mezbahayı, plural mezbahaler)
- slaughterhouse
- 1936 April 1, headline in Ulusal Birlik, page 1:
- Habeşistan mezbahaya döndü, bütün cihan, Italya'yı takbih ediyor
- Abyssinia has turned into a slaughterhouse and the whole world blames Italy
- 1936 April 1, headline in Ulusal Birlik, page 1:
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mezbah”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 764
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مذبح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1142
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mezbaha”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مذبح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1792
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN