سفربرلك
Appearance
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- սէֆէրպէրլիք (seferberlik) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
[edit]From سفربر (seferber, “mobilized”) + ـلك (-lik).[1][2]
Noun
[edit]سفربرلك • (seferberlik)
- mobilization
- 1914, [A poster][3]:
- سفربرلك وار
عسكر اولانلر سلاح آلتنه
سفربرلكك برنجی كونی [...]در- seferberlik var
asker olanlar silah altına
seferberliğin birinci günü [...]dır - There is mobilization!
Soldiers under the arms!
First day of mobilization is [...]
- seferberlik var
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: seferberlik
- → Arabic: سَفَر بَرْلِك (safar barlik)
- → Armenian: սեֆերբերլիք (seferberlikʻ)
References
[edit]- ^ “Descriptive Linguistics”, in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts[1], volume 32, 1998, page 1296
- ^ Al-Qattan, Najwa (2004) “Safarbarlik: Ottoman Syria and the Great War”, in Philipp, Thomas, editor, From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon[2], page 164; republished as Schumann, Christoph, editor, (Please provide a date or year)
Further reading
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سفربرلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[4], Constantinople: Mihran, page 681