amele

From Ottoman Turkish عمله (amele, “workers; government officials”), from Arabic عَمَلَة (ʕamala), plural of عَامِل (ʕāmil, “worker, laborer”).

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amele (definite accusative ameleyi, plural ameleler)

1. worker, laborer

   Synonym: işçi

• amil

• ırgat

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “amele”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 39
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “amele”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عمله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1321
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 56