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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قهر (kahr), from Arabic قَهْر (qahr), verbal noun of قَهَرَ (qahara, “to oppress; to defeat”). The original sense was subjugation or calamity; the sense of the reaction to such an event evolved later.
Noun
kahır (definite accusative kahrı, plural kahırlar) (archaic)
- (obsolete) violence, destruction
- anxiety, distress, deep sorrow
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References
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kahır”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2335
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kahır”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قهر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1502
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 581