murahhas
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish مرخص (“one with permission; plenipotentiary”), from Arabic مُرَخَّص (muraḵḵaṣ), passive participle of رَخَّصَ (raḵḵaṣa, “to allow”).
Noun edit
murahhas (definite accusative murahhası, plural murahhaslar)
- delegate, envoy
- Synonym: delege
- 1940 June 20, top headline in Halkin Sesi:
- Fransız-Alman murahhasları görüşmelerine başladılar
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “murahhas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرخص”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1807
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN