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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مربیه, from Arabic مُرَبِّيَة (murabbiya), feminine of مُرَبٍّ (murabbin), from the active participle of رَبَّى (rabbā, “to bring up; to educate”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mü‧reb‧bi‧ye
Noun
mürebbiye (definite accusative mürebbiyeyi, plural mürebbiyeler)
- governess, duenna
Declension
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mürebbiye”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 875
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN