karabasan
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Turkish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- kara basan (misspelling)
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