مرخصه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Feminine form of Arabic مُرَخَّص (muraḵḵaṣ). The noun sense is short for هیئت مرخصه (heyet murahhasa, “mission, delegation”).

Adjective

مرخصه • (murahhasa)

1. Arabic feminine singular and nonhuman plural of مرخص (murahhas)

Noun

مرخصه • (murahhasa)

1. an Armenian bishop

Further reading

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “murahhasa”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 817
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرخصه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1147b