münebbih
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish منبه (münebbih), from Arabic مُنَبِّه (munabbih), from the verb نَبَّهَ (nabbaha, “to awaken, rouse, stimulate”).
Noun
münebbih (definite accusative münebbihi, plural münebbihler) (obsolete)
- (medicine) stimulus; stimulant
- alarm clock
References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “münebbih”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3375
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “münebbih”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 868
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “منبه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1228
- Wehr, Hans (1960), “نبه”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN