meczup

Turkish

Alternative forms

• meczub (superseded spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مجذوب (mecẕub, “attracted, whose thoughts are attracted to God, so as to be careless of earthly things, hence (vulgar) crazy”), from Arabic مَجْذُوب (majḏūb), passive participle of جَذَبَ (jaḏaba, “to attract, to pull, to persuade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /med͡ʒˈzup/, (definite accusative) /med͡ʒˈzuːbu/
• Hyphenation: mec‧zup

Noun

meczup (definite accusative meczubu, plural meczuplar)

1. (dated) A person who has gone hysterical due to their affection to God.
2. (dated) A person who has gone crazy, insane.

   Synonyms: deli, mecnun, çılgın

   Fyodor Pavloviç'in, yüksek ihtimalle, bir gece evine gelen meczup bir kadından gayrimeşru bir oğlu daha vardır. ― Fyodor Pavlovich, most likely, has another, illegitimate son from a crazy woman, who came to his house one night.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	meczup
Definite accusative	meczubu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meczup	meczuplar
Definite accusative	meczubu	meczupları
Dative	meczuba	meczuplara
Locative	meczupta	meczuplarda
Ablative	meczuptan	meczuplardan
Genitive	meczubun	meczupların
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular meczubum meczuplarım 2nd singular meczupsun meczuplarsın 3rd singular meczup meczuptur meczuplar meczuplardır 1st plural meczubuz meczuplarız 2nd plural meczupsunuz meczuplarsınız 3rd plural meczuplar meczuplardır

Related terms

• cazibe
• cazibeli
• cazip
• cezbe
• cezbeli
• cezbetmek
• cezp

 

Further reading

• “meczup”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “meczup”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3103