تربه‌دار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From تربه (türbe, “mausoleum, tomb”) +‎ ـدار (-dar).

Noun

تربه‌دار • (türbedar) (definite accusative تربه‌داری (türbedarı), plural تربه‌دارلر (türbedarlar))

1. tomb-keeper, the guardian or custodian of a turbeh or mausoleum

   Synonym: تربه‌جی (türbeci)

Derived terms

• تربه‌دارلق (türbedarlık, “office and duties of a tomb-keeper”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: türbedar

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “تربه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 453
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “türbedar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4944
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تربه‌دار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 359
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تربه‌دار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 528