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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جبر (cebr), from the title of al-Khwarizmi's influential work الْكِتَاب الْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب الْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة (al-kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala, “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”), derived from Arabic جَبَرَ (jabara, “to set a broken bone, to force, to compel”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒeˈbiɾ/
- Hyphenation: ce‧bir
Noun
cebir (definite accusative cebri, plural cebirler)
- (archaic) force, compulsion
- (mathematics) algebra
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