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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اجنبی, from Arabic أَجْنَبِيّ (ʔajnabiyy).
Adjective
ecnebi (archaic)
- strange
- foreign, alien
Noun
ecnebi (definite accusative ecnebiyi, plural ecnebiler) (archaic)
- stranger
- foreigner, alien
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References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اجنبی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 53
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ecnebi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اجنبی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 31
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN