دفترخانه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

A compound of دفتر (defter, “register, notebook; list, inventory”) +‎ خانه (hâne, “place”).

Noun

دفترخانه • (defterhane)

1. cadastre office, whose duty was to carry out a public survey of land

Descendants

• Turkish: defterhane

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “defterhane”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1126
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دفترخانه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 574
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دفترخانه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 906