مدرسه

See also: مدرسة and مدرسہ

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَدْرَسَة (madrasa, “school, academy”).

Noun

مدرسه • (medrese) (definite accusative مدرسه‌یی (medreseyi), plural مدارس (medâris))

1. (Islam) madrasah, a school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level, but specifically one that teaches Islamic theology

Derived terms

• صحن مدارسی (sahn medârisi, “sixth grade of professorate”)
• مدرسه بكجیسی (medrese bekcisi, “older student uncapable to pass the exams”, literally “madrasah's guardian”)
• مدرسه كدیسی (medrese kedisi, “older student uncapable to pass the exams”, literally “madrasah's cat”)

Descendants

• Turkish: medrese
• → Romanian: medresea

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “مدرسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 735
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “medrese”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3107
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “medrese”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 715
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مدرسه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1140
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gymnasium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 678
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “مدرسة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4520
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “medrese”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مدرسه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1787

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَدْرَسَة (madrasa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /mad.ra.ˈsa/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd̪.ɾä.sá]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd̪.ɾä.sá]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mäd̪.ɾä.sá]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mäd̪.ɾä.sá]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæd̪.ɹe.sé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäd̪.ɾä.sá]

Readings
Classical reading?	madrasa
Dari reading?	madrasa
Iranian reading?	madrese
Tajik reading?	madrasa

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

مدرسه • (madrasa / madrese) (plural مدرسه‌ها (madrasa-hā / madrese-hâ), or مدارس (madāris / madâres), Tajik spelling мадраса)

1. school (teaching institution)

   Synonym: (Dari) مَکْتَب

   بایَد بِه مَدْرِسِه بِرَوی. (Iran) ― bâyad be madrese beravi. ― You must go to school.

   بایَد بِری مَدْرِسِه. (colloquial Tehrani) ― bâyad beri madrese. ― You must go to school.

Descendants

• → Bashkir: мәҙрәсә (məźrəsə)
• → Bengali: মাদ্রাসা (madraśa)
• → Gujarati: મદરેસા (madresā)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: मद्रसा (madrasā)

  Urdu: مَدْرِسَہ (madrisa)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਮਦਰੱਸਾ (madrassā)

  Shahmukhi script: مَدْرَسَہ (madrasah)

• → Tatar: мәдрәсә (mädräsä)