باتاقخانه
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Ottoman Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A compound of باتاق (batak, “swamp, marsh; den of fraud or violence”) + خانه (hâne, “place”).
Noun[edit]
باتاقخانه • (batakhane)
- gambling den, barrelhouse, honky-tonk, any establishment where fraud takes place
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- 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[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 231