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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
فداكار (fedakar) + ـلق (-lık), from Arabic فِدَاء (fidāʔ), Persian کار (kâr), and a native noun-forming suffix.
Noun
فداكارلق • (fedakarlık) (definite accusative فداكارلغی (fedakarlığı), plural فداكارلقلر (fedakarlıklar))
- self-sacrifice
- devotion
- great effort
1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk, page 129:بر ملتت موجودیت و استقلالنی تأمین ایچون قابل تصور اولان تشبثات و فداكارلغی یاپقدن صوكره موفق اولور.- Bir millet mevcudiyet ve istiklalını temin için kabil tasavvur olan teşebbüsat ve fedakarlığı yaptıktan sonra muvaffak olur.
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References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فداكارلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 888
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fedakâr”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN