istihbarat

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish استخبارات, plural of Arabic اِسْتِخْبَار (istiḵbār).

Noun

istihbarat (definite accusative istihbaratı, plural istihbaratlar)

1. news, information, intelligence

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “istihbârât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 547
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “استخبار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 93
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN