فداكار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic فِدَاء (fidāʔ) and Persian کار (kâr).

Adjective

فداكار • (fedakâr)

1. self-sacrificing; selfless
2. devoted

Descendants

• Turkish: fedakâr

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فداكار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 888