devshirme

Etymology
Borrowed from (🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1)  Systematic collection of non-Muslim boys or young men from rural Christian populations of the Balkans, practiced by Ottomans; the boys were taken to Istanbul, converted to Islam and educated for military profession or religious disciplines.

Synonyms

 * blood tax

Translations

 * Arabic: دَوْشِيرْمَة
 * Armenian: դեւշիրմե, մանկահավաք, մանկաժողով
 * Bulgarian: девширме, кръвен данък
 * Greek:
 * Italian: devscirme
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: devşîrme
 * Macedonian: данок во крв
 * Ottoman Turkish: دیوشیرمه
 * Persian: دوشیرمه
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: девширме, данак у крви, крвави данак
 * Roman: devširme, danak u krvi, krvavi danak
 * Slovene: krvni davek
 * Turkish: