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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic أَنْقَاض (ʔanqāḍ), plural of نَقْض (naqḍ), verbal noun of نَقَضَ (naqaḍa, “to break, demolish”).
Noun
انقاض • (enkaz)
- ruins, rubble, debris; wreckage
Descendants
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “enkaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انقاض”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 226
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 343