Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish اجنبی, from Arabic أَجْنَبِيّ (ʔajnabiyy).

Adjective edit

ecnebi (archaic)

  1. strange
  2. foreign, alien

Noun edit

ecnebi (definite accusative ecnebiyi, plural ecnebiler) (archaic)

  1. stranger
  2. foreigner, alien

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اجنبی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 53
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ecnebi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اجنبی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 31
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN