باتاقخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A compound of باتاق (batak, “swamp, marsh; den of fraud or violence”) +‎ خانه (hâne, “place”).

Noun

باتاقخانه • (batakhane)

gambling den, barrelhouse, honky-tonk, any establishment where fraud takes place

Descendants

Turkish: batakhane
→ Armenian: պաթախանէ (patʻaxanē)

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “batakhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 502
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “باتاقخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 231

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