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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian گَاوُر (gāwur), archaic form of گبر (gabr, “Zoroastrian; infidel, kafir”). Doublet of كبر (gebr, “Zoroastrian, Guebre”).
Noun
كاور • (gâvur) (definite accusative كاوری (gâvuru), plural كاورلر (gâvurlar))
- (Islam, religious slur) kafir, giaour, infidel, non-Muslim, disbeliever, one who is not a Muslim
- Synonym: كافر (kâfir)
Derived terms
- كاور اولمق (gâvur olmak, “to renounce Islam”)
- كاورجه (gâvurca, “in the manner of an infidel”)
- كاورلق (gâvurluk, “the quality or conduct of an infidel”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كاور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 607
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gâvur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1651
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كاور”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 382b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كاور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1007
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Infidelis”, 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 797
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كاور”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3856
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “gâvur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كاور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1519