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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish حكمدار (ḥükümdār, “who holds rule, ruler, monarch”), from Arabic حُكْم (ḥukm) + Persian دار (dâr), equivalent to hüküm + -dar. Cognates with Azerbaijani hökmdar, Turkmen hökümdar, Uyghur ھۈكۈمدار (hükümdar), Uzbek hukmdor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.cymˈdaɾ/
- Hyphenation: hü‧küm‧dar
Noun
hükümdar (definite accusative hükümdarı, plural hükümdarlar)
- A person who rules; a ruler, sovereign, monarch.
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Further reading
- “hükümdar”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hükümdar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1841
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “hükümdar”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN