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Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاچاوره (paçavra), from Greek πατσαβούρα (patsavoúra, “rag; dirty cloth”).
Noun
paçavra
- napkin
Declension
References
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پاچاوره (paçavra) , from Greek πατσαβούρα (patsavoúra, “rag; dirty cloth”).
Noun
paçavra (definite accusative paçavrayı, plural paçavralar)
- rag, dirty cloth
- (figurative, derogatory) rag (poor quality newspaper)
- 2020 September 8, headline in Cumhuriyet:
AKP'li kadın vekilden Akit'e sert tepki: Paçavra, esfeli safiline inmiş ahlaksız- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (figurative) something worthless
1938 July 24, “Karısını balta ile doğrayan katil [Killer who chopped up his wife with an axe]”, in Kurun, page 4:Tabiî öldürdüm.. Hayır hayır, balta ile kestim. Çünkü namusumu paçavra yaptı, demiştir.- Of course I killed her.. No, no, I chopped her with an axe. Because she soiled my honor, he said.
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References
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN