كتبخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A compound of the plural of كتاب (kitab, “book”) +‎ خانه (hâne, “place”).

Noun

كتبخانه • (kütübhâne)

library, an institution which holds books
bookcase, a piece of furniture for the storage of books
bookshop, a shop that sells books

Descendants

Turkish: kütüphane

Further reading

Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كتبخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1011
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كتبخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1526

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