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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بلمك (bilmek)[1] or بیلمك (“to know, to understand, to recognize”),[2] Proto-Turkic *bil- (“to know”),[3][4] morphologically bil- + -gin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bilˈɟin/
- Hyphenation: bil‧gin
Noun
bilgin (definite accusative bilgini, plural bilginler)
- A learned person, pundit, scholar.
- Synonym: âlim
Declension
Derived terms
Noun
bilgin
- second-person singular possessive of bilgi
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 384
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 304
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bil-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bilgin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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