خطابا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خِطَابًا (ḵiṭāban), adverbial accusative of خِطَاب (ḵiṭāb).

Postposition

خطابا • (hitaben)

1. (with dative) to (identifying the audience of a speech or the recipient of a writing)
   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[1], page 103:

     ایلولك اون برنجی كونی ، پادشاهه خطاباً بر تلغرافنامه حاضرلاندی ؛ […]

     Eylülün on birinci günü, padişaha hitaben bir telgrafname hazırlandı; […]

     On July 11th a telegram to the Padishah was prepared; […]

Descendants

• Turkish: hitaben

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “hitaben”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN