سفربرلك

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From سفربر (seferber, “mobilized”) +‎ ـلك (-lik).[1][2]

Noun

سفربرلك • (seferberlik)

  1. mobilization
    • 1914, [A poster]‎:
      سفربرلك وار
      عسكر اولانلر سلاح آلتنه
      سفربرلكك برنجی كونی [...]در
      seferberlik var
      asker olanlar silah altına
      seferberliğin birinci günü [...]dır
      There is mobilization!
      Soldiers under the arms!
      First day of mobilization is [...]

Descendants

References
  1. “Descriptive Linguistics”, in Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts‎, volume 32, 1998, page 1296
  2. Al-Qattan, Najwa (2004) “Safarbarlik: Ottoman Syria and the Great War”, in Philipp, Thomas, editor, From the Syrian Land to the States of Syria and Lebanon‎, page 164; republished as Schumann, Christoph, editor, (Please provide a date or year)

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