یتیمخانه
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A compound of یتیم (yetim, “orphan”) + خانه (hâne, “place”).
Noun
[edit]یتیمخانه • (yetimhane)
- orphanage, a residential institution for the care and protection of orphans
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: yetimhane
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yetimhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5307
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “yetimhâne”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1396