تلغرافنامه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

تلغراف (telgraf, “telegraph”) +‎ نامه (name, “letter”), from French télégraphe and Persian نامه (nâme).

Noun

تلغرافنامه • (telegrafname or telgrafname)

1. telegram

   Synonym: (informal) تل (tel)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تلغرافنامه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 398
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN