mütecasir

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish متجاسر (mütecasir), from Arabic مُتَجَاسِر (mutajāsir), active participle of تَجَاسَرَ (tajāsara, “to dare, venture, risk; to be bold, insolent, impudent”).

Adjective

mütecasir (obsolete)

1. daring; audacious
2. presumptious; arrogant
   • 1937 November 13, “Dobricede Türkler aleyhine fesad”, in Cumhuriyet, page 3:

     Birkaç gün evvel Dobrice köylerinde Türkiye aleyhinde beyannameler dağıtıldığı haber alınmış, hükûmetin önliyici tedbirlerile mütecasirleri yakalanmıştır.

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Related terms

• cesaret

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mütecâsir”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 909
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “متجاسر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1105
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “جسر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN