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kalpazan

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish قالپازان (kalpazan), from older قلبزن (kalbzen), from Arabic قَلْب (qalb, “reversal, transformation, perversion”) + Persian [Term?].

Noun edit

kalpazan

  1. counterfeiter, forger

References edit

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalpazan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2364
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “قلب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
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