murakabe

Turkish

Alternative forms

• murakaba, mürakabe

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مراقبه (murakabe, “vigilance”), from Arabic مُرَاقَبَة (murāqaba), verbal noun of رَاقَبَ (rāqaba).

Noun

murakabe (definite accusative murakabeyi, plural murakabeler) (archaic)

1. supervision, inspection, oversight
   • 1941 December 11, “Fiat Mürakabe Komisyonundan [From the Price Control Commission]”, in Yeniyol, Trabzon, page 2:

     Vilâyet Fiat Mürakabe komisyonunca şımdiye kadar satış fiatları tesbit ve ilân edilmiş olan maddeleri tekrar ve aynen ilân ediyoruz.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (business) audit
3. censure
4. meditation, contemplation

Related terms

• murakıp

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “murâkabe”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 817
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “murakabe”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مراقبه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1799
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN