tımarhane

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تیمارخانه (timarhane). By surface analysis, tımar (“care”) +‎ -hane (“house”).

Noun

tımarhane (definite accusative tımarhaneyi, plural tımarhaneler)

  1. mental institution

See also

References

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تیمارخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 620
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.