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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قالپازان (kalpazan), from older قلبزن (kalbzen), from Arabic قَلْب (qalb, “reversal, transformation, perversion”) + Persian .
Noun
kalpazan
- counterfeiter, forger
References
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kalpazan”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2364
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “قلب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz