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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مسلح (müsellah), from Arabic مُسَلَّح (musallaḥ, “armed”), from سَلَّحَ (sallaḥa, “to arm, equip”).
Adjective
müsellah (archaic)
- armed
- Synonym: silahlı
1929 December 24, “Beş haydut”, in Yarın, page 1:Derhal yapılab takibat netibesinde Abdüsselâm avenesi olan dört müsellâh haydutlar birlikte yakalanmış ve mahkemeye verimiştir.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müsellah”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسلح”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1856
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN