muteber

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish معتبر (muteber), from Arabic مُعْتَبَر (muʕtabar). Compare Azerbaijani mötəbər.

Adjective

muteber

1. respected, respectable
2. legal, valid

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muteber”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معتبر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1901
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN