kitabevi

Turkish

Alternative forms

kitab evi (misspelling)
kitap evi (misspelling)
kitapevi (misspelling)

Etymology

From kitap (“book”) +‎ ev (“house”). The traditional suffix for such formations ("building where ...") is -hane, but it had already been used to form kütüphane (“library”).

Noun

kitabevi (definite accusative kitabeviyi, plural kitabeviler)

bookshop, bookstore

References

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kitabevi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2692

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