enkaz

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish انقاض (enkâz), from Arabic أَنْقَاض (ʔanqāḍ), plural of نَقْض (naqḍ), verbal noun of نَقَضَ (naqaḍa, “to break, demolish”).

Noun

enkaz (definite accusative enkazı, plural enkazlar)

  1. ruins, rubble, debris; wreckage

References
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “enkaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انقاض”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 226
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 343
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