لوجه

Borrowed from either French loge (“theater box; lodge”) or Italian loggia (“loge; lodge”). Doublet of لونجه (lonca, “guild, corporation”).

لوجه • (loca)

loge, box, a compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other similar building
lodge, the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry and the building in which such a unit meets

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Ottoman Turkish