kıraathane
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قرائتخانه (kıraathane, “a public reading room, a coffee house where newspapers are kept”).[1][2] By surface analysis, kıraat + -hane.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kıraathane (definite accusative kıraathaneyi, plural kıraathaneler)
- coffeehouse
- Synonym: kahvehane
- (archaic) A furnished, spacious coffeehouse that keeps newspapers, periodicals, books for customers to read
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قرائتخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1444
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قرائتخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 953
Further reading
[edit]- “kıraathane”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıraathane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2615