خاوره

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• خورا, حاوره, هورا, هاوره

Etymology

From Hebrew חֶבְרָה (khevrá).

Noun

خاوره • (havra)

1. synagogue
2. crowded, noisy place

Descendants

• Turkish: havra
• → Armenian: խավռա (xavṙa, “confusion, disorder”)
• → Macedonian: авра (avra, “synagogue”)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خاوره”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 828
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خورا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 871
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “هاوره”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1320

Pashto

Noun

خاوره • (khā́vra) f

1. soil, land
2. dust, dirt
3. clay

References

• “خاوره”, in Pashto Dictionary, Peshawar, Pakistan: Pukhtoogle, 2020.