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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مرحبا (merhaba), borrowed from Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mêrxaːba/
- Hyphenation: mer‧ha‧ba
Interjection
mȅrhāba (Cyrillic spelling ме̏рха̄ба)
- (Islam) hello, hi
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مرحبا (merhaba, “hello”), from Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban, “hello, welcome”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (interjection) /ˈmæɾ.ha.baː/, (noun) /ˈmæɾ.ha.ba/, (in fast speech, interjection and noun) /ˈme.ɾa.ba/, (in fast speech, interjection) /ˈme.ɾa.baː/
- Hyphenation: mer‧ha‧ba
Interjection
merhaba
- hello, hi
Noun
merhaba (definite accusative merhabayı, plural merhabalar)
- hi, hello, greeting
- Synonym: selam
Merhaba, size nasıl yardımcı olabilirim?- Hello, how can I help you?
Merhabanı istemiyorum!- I don't want your hello's!
Derived terms
Further reading
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- “merhaba”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “merhaba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “merhaba”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merhaba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3087