tımarhane

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تیمارخانه (timarhane). By surface analysis, tımar (“care”) +‎ -hane (“house”).

Noun

tımarhane (definite accusative tımarhaneyi, plural tımarhaneler)

1. mental institution

See also

• hastane

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تیمارخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 620
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN