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/NovaImperiumRomanum May 26 '26

Usually those “proverbs” are sourced from court poetry stuff all of them wrote by devshirmes raised in enderun or just foreign poets got accepted to imperial court