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Arabic
Noun
مِعْذَار • (miʕḏār)
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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic مِعْذَار (miʕḏār).
Noun
معذار • (mizar)
- covering, cloak; shroud
- excuse
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Further reading
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, page 107, incorrectly deriving from Armenian
- Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “معذار”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 824a
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معذار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1906