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Turkish
Etymology
baş (“head”) + kumandan (“commander”)
Noun
başkumandan (definite accusative başkumandanı, plural başkumandanlar)
- (military) commander in chief
1929 March 22, “Mareşal Foch dün vefat etti”, in İkdam:Bu adam harpta itilâf başkumandanı idi.- This man was commander-in-chief on the Allied battlefield.
References
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN