drahoma
Turkish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek τράχωμα (tráchoma, “dowry given in money”), from Byzantine Greek τραχύ (trakhú, “trachy, a kind of Byzantine silver coin”, literally “rough, eneven”), neuter of τραχύς (trakhús, “rough, eneven”), referring to the concavity of the coins.
Noun
drahoma (definite accusative drahomayı, plural drahomalar)
- (for Christians and Jews in Turkey) property or payment given by a wife to a husband at the time of marriage, dowry.
Declension
| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | drahoma | |
| Definite accusative | drahomayı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | drahoma | drahomalar |
| Definite accusative | drahomayı | drahomaları |
| Dative | drahomaya | drahomalara |
| Locative | drahomada | drahomalarda |
| Ablative | drahomadan | drahomalardan |
| Genitive | drahomanın | drahomaların |
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “drahoma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume II, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1297a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2015-06-18) “drahoma”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2016-12-04
- Grierson, Philip (1991) “Trachy”, in Kazhdan, Alexander, editor, The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium[1], Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, page 2101b
- Tietze, Andreas (2002) “dırahoma / drahoma”, in Tarihi ve Etimolojik Türkiye Türkçesi Lügati [Historical and Etymological Dictionary of Turkish] (in Turkish), volume I, Istanbul, Vienna: Simurg Kitapçılık, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 608b