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meyhane.

tavern, bar, pub, a traditional restaurant in Turkey and in the Balkans, which serves alcoholic beverages with meze

7 characters3 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/mej(h)aːˈne/
  1. tavern, bar, pub, a traditional restaurant in Turkey and in the Balkans, which serves alcoholic beverages with meze

  2. meykhana, a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates rhyme, rhythmic speech, and vernacular language performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backing beat or with a musical accompaniment

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish میخانه (meyhane, “tavern, bar”), from Classical Persian میخانه (meyxâne), compound of می (may, “wine”) and خانه (xâne, “house”). By surface analysis, mey (“wine”) + -hane (“suffix forming building names”).

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