müdiriyet

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مدیریت, equivalent to Arabic مُدِير (mudīr, “director”) and ـِيَّة (-iyya, forms abstract nouns).

Noun

müdiriyet (definite accusative müdiriyeti, plural müdiriyetler)

1. (archaic) directorate; management
   • 1929 January 3, “Batakhane kapatıldı”, in Milliyet, page 1:

     Polis müdiriyeti şedit bir mücadele açtı

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms

• müdir
• müdür

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مدیریت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1142
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN