drahoma

Turkish

Alternative forms

• dırahoma

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (drahoma), from Greek τράχωμα (tráchoma, “dowry given in money”), from Byzantine Greek τραχύ (trakhú, “trachy, a kind of Byzantine silver coin”, literally “rough, eneven”), neuter of τραχύς (trakhús, “rough, eneven”), referring to the concavity of the coins.

Noun

drahoma (definite accusative drahomayı, plural drahomalar)

1. (for Christians and Jews in Turkey) property or payment given by a wife to a husband at the time of marriage, dowry.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	drahoma
Definite accusative	drahomayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	drahoma	drahomalar
Definite accusative	drahomayı	drahomaları
Dative	drahomaya	drahomalara
Locative	drahomada	drahomalarda
Ablative	drahomadan	drahomalardan
Genitive	drahomanın	drahomaların

Related terms

• dirhem (“dram”)
• drahmi (“drachma”)

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “drahoma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1297a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-06-18) “drahoma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-12-04
• Grierson, Philip (1991) “Trachy”, in Kazhdan, Alexander, editor, The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium‎^[1], Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, page 2101b
• Tietze, Andreas (2002) “dırahoma / drahoma”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 608b