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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish منطقه (mıntıka), from Arabic مِنْطَقَة (minṭaqa, “belt, girdle; zone; sector”).
Noun
mıntıka (definite accusative mıntıkayı, plural mıntıkalar or (obsolete) menatık)
- (geography) zone
- region, district, area
- (archaic) girdle, sash
- (archaic) ecliptic
Declension
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mıntıka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “منطقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2006
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN