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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic رَحًى (raḥan, “millstone”).
Noun
رحی • (raha) (plural ارحا (erha))
- mill, a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains or seeds
- Synonyms: آسیا (asya), دگرمن (değirmen)
- millstone, a large and round stone used for grinding grain
- Synonym: دگرمن طاشی (değirmen taşı)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “raha”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3930
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “rahâ”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1046
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mola”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1067
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “رحی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2294
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “رحی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 968