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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish استخبارات, plural of Arabic اِسْتِخْبَار (istiḵbār).
Noun
istihbarat (definite accusative istihbaratı, plural istihbaratlar)
- news, information, intelligence
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “istihbârât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 547
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “استخبار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 93
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN