Broaden/narrow your search beyond exact matches by..

• prepending/appending asterisk (*), so that your query matches all the words ending/beginning with the string you entered, respectively
  
  mutefer* matches any of muteferriqa, muteferriqanınki, muteferiqa and mutefer
• performing fuzzy-search using tilde (~), so that your query matches words that differ from your query string by the specified number of characters
  
  muteferriqa~, matches any of muteferrika, miteferriqa, uteferriqa and umuteferriqa
• enclosing your query with quotation marks ("), so that query matches nothing but the exact phrase that you enter
  

Enjoy the convenience of..

• Autocomplete, built into the site-wide search boxes, whereby you will see suggestions appearing below the search box while you are typing. It does not get activated before you enter at least three characters.
• Virtual keyboard for Ottoman Turkish, that lets you enter Arabic characters when performing (full-text) searches in Ottoman Turkish. Please click the keyboard icon within a search box to bring it up.