باصمهخانه
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- պասմախանէ (basmahane) — Armeno-Turkish
Etymology
Compound of باصمه (basma, “printing, typography”) + خانه (hâne, “house”).
Noun
باصمهخانه • (basmahâne) (definite accusative باصمهخانهیی (basmahâneyi), plural باصمهخانهلر (basmahâneler))
- printing house, printworks, the building where printing takes place
Descendants
- Turkish: basmahane
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “باصمه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 268
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “basmahane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 480
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باصمهخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 241
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “باصمهخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 328