English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیوشیرمه (devşirme, literally “collection, gathering”) (Turkish devşirme).
Noun
devshirme (uncountable)
- (historical) Systematic collection of non-Muslim boys or young men from rural Christian populations of the Balkans, practiced by Ottomans; the boys were taken to Istanbul, converted to Islam and educated for military profession or religious disciplines.
Translations
collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
- Arabic: دَوْشِيرْمَة (dawšīrma)
- Armenian: դեւշիրմե (dewširme), մանկահավաք (mankahavakʻ), մանկաժողով (mankažoġov)
- Bulgarian: девширме (devširme), кръвен данък (krǎven danǎk)
- Greek: παιδομάζωμα (el) (paidomázoma)
- Italian: devscirme
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: devşîrme
- Macedonian: данок во крв m (danok vo krv)
- Ottoman Turkish: دیوشیرمه (devşirme)
- Persian: دوشیرمه (devširme)
- Russian: де́вширме (ru) (dévširme)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: девширме, данак у крви, крвави данак
- Roman: devširme, danak u krvi, krvavi danak
- Slovene: krvni davek
- Turkish: devşirme (tr)
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