زوربه

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• زورابا (zorba)

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian زورباز (zôrbâz).

Noun

زوربه • (zorba)

1. rebel, rioter, a person who resists an authority
2. one who takes property by force, extorter

Derived terms

• زوربهلق (zorbalık, “oppression, violence”)

Descendants

• Turkish: zorba
• → Aromanian: zurbã
• → Armenian: զոռբա (zoṙba)
• → Bulgarian: зорба́ (zorbá)
• → Georgian: ზორბა (zorba)
• → Greek: ζορμπάς (zormpás)
• → Romanian: zurba
• → Serbo-Croatian: zòrba, зо̀рба

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zorba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5497
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زوربه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 650
• Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) “zorba”, in Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 432
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rebellis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1438
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زوربه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2483
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zorba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زورابا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1018