غزته

See also: غربة, عربة, and عزبة

Ottoman Turkish

غزته

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta.

Noun

غزته • (gazeta or gazete) (definite accusative غزته‌یی (gazetayı), plural غزته‌لر (gazetalar))

1. journal, newspaper, gazette, a publication, usually published daily or weekly, containing news and other articles

   Synonyms: جریده (ceride), روزنامه (ruzname)

   • 1929 December 24, 19th century cartoon reprinted in Yarın with modern Turkish added:

     هر غزته‌نك كندینه مخصوص بر مسلكی وار.

     Her gazetenin kendisine mahsus bir mesleği var.

     Every newspaper has its own kind of occupation.

Derived terms

• غزته‌جی (gazetacı, “journalist”)

Descendants

• Turkish: gazete
• → Armenian: կազէթա (kazētʻa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gazete”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1659
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غزته”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 873
• Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “newspaper”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 361a
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gazete”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غزته”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1344