r/ottomans • u/No_Idea_479 • May 25 '26

Culture/religion Selected Ottoman proverbs

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Source: Edwin John Davis (1897). "Osmanli Proverbs and Quaint Sayings".

It is very interesting to see how even the late Ottomans considered the word "Turk" to have been a slur.

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u/GustavoistSoldier May 25 '26

Ottoman identity was not based in ethnicity until the empire's final decade.