Ottomanizev.
/ˈɒtəmənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈɑdəməˌnaɪz/ Chiefly historical in later use.
transitive. To make Ottoman or Turkish.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Turkey > [verb (transitive)]
Turkize1599
Turkify1682
Ottomanize1886
Turkicize1939
1886 Fortn. Rev. No. 239. 564 Not one of them made any permanent progress towards Ottomanizing his dominions.
1895 Eclectic Mag. Oct. 564 To Ottomanize European Turkey.
1917 M. E. Durham in Jrnl. Central Asian Soc. 4 i. 5 Though each invader in turn has striven to crush the Albanian's individuality, none has as yet succeeded... All efforts to Slavize, Grecicize, or Ottomanize him have failed.
1972 D. Dakin Unification of Greece xii. 178 The new policy was to ottomanise the empire, to abolish the nationalist organisations, and to disarm the warring factions.
1995 Observer (Nexis) 24 Dec. (Review section) 11 You could build your own Italian opera house..or employ a full-time translator to Ottomanise the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Derivatives
ˈOttomanizing adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [adjective] > specific
pan-Slavic1848
pan-Slavistic1848
pan-Slavonic1848
Panhellenist1850
pan-Arab1881
pan-Arabic1881
pan-Africander1884
Zionistic1894
Zionist1896
pan-Germanistic1903
Africanistic1904
Arab nationalist1913
pan-Germanist1916
Ottomanizing1917
Yiddishist1920
pan-Arabist1956
Arabist1957
pan-Africanist1957
Africanist1958
1917 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 11 18 The Ottomanizing leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress listened eagerly to Pan-Turanian preaching.
1920 Glasgow Herald 15 July 4 His liberalism earned him the utter hatred of the ottomanising Committee of Union and Progress.
1936 R. C. K. Ensor England, 1870–1914 xiii. 463 They were united by the Ottomanizing policy of the Young Turks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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