gayrimümkün

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish غیر ممكن (gayr-i mümkin), from Arabic غَيْر مُمْكِن (ḡayr mumkin). By surface analysis, gayri- (“non-”) +‎ mümkün (“possible”).

Adjective

gayrimümkün

1. impossible

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “gayrimümkün”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1980