karabasan
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of kara (“evil, wicked”) + basan (“one that presses”). For semantic development, compare Finnish painajainen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]karabasan (definite accusative karabasanı, plural karabasanlar)
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “karabasan”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “karabasan”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı