پشتخته

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Ottoman Turkish

پشتخته

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیشْتَخْتَه (pēštaxta).

Noun

پشتخته (peştahta) (definite accusative پشتخته‌یی (peştahtayı), plural پشتخته‌لر (peştahtalar))

  1. counter, a table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
  2. mantelshelf, mantelpiece, a wooden or marble shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace

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Further reading

  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “peştahta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3837
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “پشتخته”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 119a
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پشتخته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 322
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Scriptorium”, 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 1523
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “پشتخته”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 828
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پشتخته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 449