سرابستان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سراب‎ (serab, “mirage”) +‎ ـستان‎ (-stan, “suffix forming placenames”).

Noun

سرابستان • (serabistan)

place where mirages often occur
(figuratively) world of vanity

Descendants

Turkish: serabistan

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “serabistan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4151
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “سرابستان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1047

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