تیمارخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Compound of تیمار (timar, “care, attentive service”) +‎ خانه (hâne, “place”).

Noun

تیمارخانه • (timarhâne) (definite accusative تیمارخانه‌یی (timarhâneyi), plural تیمارخانه‌لر (timarhâneler))

1. mental hospital, asylum, a hospital facility designed to treat persons with serious mental disorders, as opposed to disorders of the body

Derived terms

• تیمارخانه قاچغینی (timarhâne kaçgını, “asylum fugitive”)
• تیمارخانه‌جی (timarhâneci, “worker in an asylum”)

Descendants

• Turkish: tımarhane
• → Armenian: թիմարխանա (tʻimarxana), թիմարհանէ (tʻimarhanē)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tımarhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4805
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “تیمارخانه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 172b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تیمارخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 421
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تیمارخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 620