cüret
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish جرأت (boldness, courage), from Arabic جُرْأَة (jurʔa).
Noun edit
cüret (definite accusative cüreti, plural cüretler)
- courage
- insolence
- 1937 March 4, “Hatay'da çete baskınları başladı”, in Son Telgraf, Istanbul, page 1:
- Bu ne cü'ret?!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cüret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جرأت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 652
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN