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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian زورباز (zôrbâz).
Noun
زوربه • (zorba)
- rebel, rioter, a person who resists an authority
- one who takes property by force, extorter
Derived terms
- زوربهلق (zorbalık, “oppression, violence”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zorba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5497
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زوربه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 650
- Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) “zorba”, in Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 432
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rebellis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1438
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زوربه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2483
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zorba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زورابا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1018