müdiriyet

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مدیریت, equivalent to Arabic مُدِير (mudīr, “director”) and ـِيَّة (-iyya, forms abstract nouns).

Noun

müdiriyet (definite accusative müdiriyeti, plural müdiriyetler)

  1. (archaic) directorate; management
    • 1929 January 3, “Batakhane kapatıldı”, in Milliyet, page 1:
      Polis müdiriyeti şedit bir mücadele açtı
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مدیریت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1142
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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