Mezbaha: from the Arabic root ذبح Ḏ-B-Ḥ (to sacrifice) can be derived the forms ذَبَح ḏabaḥa (he sacrificed), ذَبَحْتَ ḏabaḥta (you (masculine singular) sacrificed), ذَبَّحَ ḏabbaḥa (he slaughtered), يُذَبَّح yuḏabbiḥ (he slaughters), and مَذْبَح maḏbaḥ. Originally the area for ritual sacrifice[1]. Abattoir from French abattre (to pull, knock, cut down; slaughter [2]; weaken, drain of energy), slaughterhouse.
[1] Ritual sacrifice was usually performed near a stone pillar as a token to god. Such stones were called masseboth (singular: massebah). They may be inscribed with the word “masseboth” (msb or msbt) from the Semitic root “msb” meaning “to be erect”. According to the bible, a popular Canaanite inspired apostasy from the cult of Yehouah was the worship of “masseboth” or standing stones. Eight of the Israelite cult places surveyed by Zevit featured standing stones, but hundreds have been found in the Negev and Sinai. They appear singly, but also in twos, threes, fives, sevens, nines, twelves, and even more. When there are two, one is often tall and the other shorter and squatter, and, sometimes, in the groups of threes, the third is a small stone, so they seem to stand for a holy family. It would likely be the influence of the Egyptian holy family of Osiris, Isis (Hathor) and the infant Horus.
[2] Slaughter: c.1300, "killing of a cattle or sheep for food, killing of a person," from O.N. *slahtr, akin to slatr "a butchering, butcher meat," slatra "to slaughter," and slattr "a mowing;" related to sla "to strike" (see slay), from P.Gmc. *slukhtis. Meaning "killing of a large number of persons in battle" is attested from mid-14c. The verb is from 1530s. Early maps of London show numerous stockyards in the periphery of the city, (The Shambles in Guildford District) where slaughter occurred in the open air. A term for such open-air slaughterhouse is a shambles. Today's use: shambles, a state of total disorder.
Meat Square: Et Meydanı
Located in Aksaray, İstanbul acroos the Yusufpaşa fountain along the Bayrampaşa creek, on the right hand side of Ahmediye Avenue (Caddesi). The freshly slaughtered carcasses allocated (ration: tayin TR) were delivered thru one of the seven gates reserved for meat delivery to the army barracks called yeni odalar (new rooms) established by Makbul İbrahim Paşa, a grand vizier of the Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman the Lawgiver. This gate gave the name of Et Meydani to the square. The meat was slaughtered at Yedikule and Edirnekapı salhanes (abattoir) and transported by Seğirdim Çavuş and his corps evert morning at this square and were registered to et tomruğu (Meat register).
The Yeniceri corps was also destroyed on the Et Maydani (Meat-Square), in 1826.
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