garabet
See also: Garabet
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish غرابت (ġarābet, “a being away from home, in a strange town or land, absence, exile, a word's being strange or foreign, strangeness, a being strange, curious, or outlandish, singularity”),[1][2] from Arabic غَرَابَة (ḡarāba, “strangeness, oddness”), verbal noun of غَرُبَ (ḡaruba, “to be a stranger, to be strange, odd, obscure”).[3]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editgarabet (definite accusative garabeti, plural garabetler)
Declension
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غرابت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1339
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غرابت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 870
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “garabet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
edit- “garabet”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “garabet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1642