karavaş

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Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قراواش (karavaş), from Old Anatolian Turkish قَرَوَاشْ (qaravaş), from Proto-Turkic *kara baĺč[1]. Morphologically kara +‎ baş. Compare Azerbaijani qarabaş.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧vaş

Noun

karavaş (definite accusative karavaşı, plural karavaşlar)

  1. (historical) female slave
  2. (Bursa, Ankara, Kars) concubine
    Synonyms: cariye, odalık

Declension

Declension of karavaş
singular plural
nominative karavaş karavaşlar
definite accusative karavaşı karavaşları
dative karavaşa karavaşlara
locative karavaşta karavaşlarda
ablative karavaştan karavaşlardan
genitive karavaşın karavaşların

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karavaş”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • karavaş”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • karavaş”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982