The story
- Ottoman Turkish · derived fromدونمه
- Turkish · borrowed fromDönme
- English todayDönmeh
From Turkish Dönme, from Ottoman Turkish دونمه (dönme), of a root prefix meaning "turn" or "convert".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dönmeh
Today it means: A group of crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who, to avoid imprisonment after declaring arrival of the doomsday messiah, converted publicly to Islam, but retained their Jewish beliefs in secret. Full definition →
Turkish Dönme ← Ottoman Turkish دونمه