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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مذبح (mezbah), مذبحه (mezbaha), from Arabic مَذْبَح (maḏbaḥ), مَذْبَحَة (maḏbaḥa).
Noun
mezbaha (definite accusative mezbahayı, plural mezbahaler)
- slaughterhouse
- 1936 April 1, headline in Ulusal Birlik, page 1:
Habeşistan mezbahaya döndü, bütün cihan, Italya'yı takbih ediyor- Abyssinia has turned into a slaughterhouse and the whole world blames Italy
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References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mezbah”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 764
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مذبح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1142
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mezbaha”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مذبح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1792
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN