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Systematic collection of non-Muslim boys or young men from rural Christian populations of the Balkans, practiced by Ottomans; the boys were taken to Istanbul, converted to Islam and educated for military profession or religious disciplines.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیوشیرمه (devşirme, literally “collection, gathering”) (Turkish devşirme).
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
دَوْشِيرْمَة
(dawšīrma)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Armenian:
դեւշիրմե
(dewširme)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Armenian:
մանկահավաք
(mankahavakʻ)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Armenian:
մանկաժողով
(mankažoġov)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Bulgarian:
девширме
(devširme)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Bulgarian:
кръвен данък
(krǎven danǎk)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Greek:
παιδομάζωμα
(paidomázoma)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Italian:
devscirme
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Northern Kurdish:
devşîrme
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Macedonian:
данок во крв
(danok vo krv)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Persian:
دوشیرمه
(devširme)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Russian:
де́вширме
(dévširme)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Serbo-Croatian:
девширме
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Serbo-Croatian:
данак у крви
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Serbo-Croatian:
крвави данак
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Serbo-Croatian:
devširme
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Serbo-Croatian:
danak u krvi
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Serbo-Croatian:
krvavi danak
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Slovene:
krvni davek
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Turkish:
devşirme
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
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Ottoman Turkish:
دیوشیرمه
(devşirme)
— collection of non-Muslim children to be converted to Islam
