باتاقخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A compound of باتاق (batak, “swamp, marsh; den of fraud or violence”) +‎ خانه (hâne, “place”).

Noun

باتاقخانه • (batakhane)

1. gambling den, barrelhouse, honky-tonk, any establishment where fraud takes place

   Synonym: باتاق (batak)

Descendants

• Turkish: batakhane
• → Armenian: պաթախանէ (patʻaxanē)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “batakhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 502
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باتاقخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 231