خطابا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Postposition

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

  • Turkish: hitaben

Further reading

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