mezbaha

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مذبح (mezbah), مذبحه (mezbaha), from Arabic مَذْبَح (maḏbaḥ), مَذْبَحَة (maḏbaḥa).

Noun

mezbaha (definite accusative mezbahayı, plural mezbahaler)

1. slaughterhouse
   • 1936 April 1, headline in Ulusal Birlik, page 1:

     Habeşistan mezbahaya döndü, bütün cihan, Italya'yı takbih ediyor

     Abyssinia has turned into a slaughterhouse and the whole world blames Italy

Related terms

• mezbuhane

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mezbah”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 764
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مذبح”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1142
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mezbaha”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مذبح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1792
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN