زیبك
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
زیبك • (zeybek) (plural زیبكلر (zeybekler))
- a Turkish tribe in the region of İzmir [subdued under Mehmed II]
- a kind of light infantryman [originally armed police forces of the Seljuk state]
- guerrillero, partisan, Robin Hood, vagabond, highland swashbuckler [after the Celali rebellions]
Descendants edit
- Turkish: zeybek
- → Armenian: զեյպեկ (zeypek)
- → German: Zeibek
- → Russian: зейбек (zejbek)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading edit
- Zeybeks on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Zeybek (Titel) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Zeybek (unvan) on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia tr