خطابا

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic خِطَابًا (ḵiṭāban), adverbial accusative of خِطَاب (ḵiṭāb).

Postposition

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خطابا (hitaben)

  1. (with dative) to (identifying the audience of a speech or the recipient of a writing)
    • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk[1], page 103:
      ایلولك اون برنجی كونی ، پادشاهه خطاباً بر تلغرافنامه حاضرلاندی ؛ []
      Eylülün on birinci günü, padişaha hitaben bir telgrafname hazırlandı; []
      On July 11th a telegram to the Padishah was prepared; []

Descendants

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  • Turkish: hitaben

Further reading

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “hitaben”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN