müsamere

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مسامره (müsamere), from Arabic مُسَامَرَة (musāmara), verbal noun of سَامَرَ (sāmara, “to chat at night”).

Noun

müsamere (definite accusative müsamereyi, plural müsamereler)

1. evening activity or entertainment; soiree
   • 1934 October 31, headline in Vakit:

     Bir çok mekteplerimizde müsamereler verildi

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مسامره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1158
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müsamere”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسامره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1828
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN