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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish رأیی عام (reyi am). The first word survives as rey. The second word, âm, is an obsolete borrowing from Arabic عَامّ (ʕāmm).
Noun
reyiâm (definite accusative reyiâmı, plural reyiâmlar) (obsolete)
- popular opinion
- vote; referendum; plebiscite
1934 September 29, Louis Barthou, quotee, “Sar reyiâmı günün meselesi halindedir”, in Hakimiyeti Milliye, page 1:Eğer nizamın muhafazasından mesul olan hükûmet komisyonu kısa bir müddet zarfında her türlü ahvalde güvenebileceği anasırdan mürekkep bir polise malik olmazsa reyiâm Milletler Cemiyetinin prestijine ve bizzat reyiâmın haklı bir surette yapılmasına zarar verebilecek hadiselere maruz kalabilecektir.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1938 March 30, headline in Doğu:
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “rey”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 4, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3964
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “re'y-i âmm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1068
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN