خطابا
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic خِطَابًا (ḵiṭāban), adverbial accusative of خِطَاب (ḵiṭāb).
Postposition
[edit]خطابا • (hitaben)
- (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
[edit]- Turkish: hitaben
Further reading
[edit]- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “hitaben”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN