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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish غرابت (ġarābet, “a being away from home, in a strange town or land, absence, exile, a word's being strange or foreign, strangeness, a being strange, curious, or outlandish, singularity”),[1][2] from Arabic غَرَابَة (ḡarāba, “strangeness, oddness”), verbal noun of غَرُبَ (ḡaruba, “to be a stranger, to be strange, odd, obscure”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡa.ɾaːˈbet/
- Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧bet
Noun
garabet (definite accusative garabeti, plural garabetler)
- (dated) strangeness, oddness
- Synonyms: gariplik, tuhaflık, acayiplik
Declension
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غرابت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1339
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غرابت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 870
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “garabet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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