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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish محصور (mahsur), from Arabic مَحْصُور (maḥṣūr), passive participle of حَصَرَ (ḥaṣara).
Adjective
mahsur
- confined, trapped, stuck
- limited
- hindered
- besieged, blockaded
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mahsur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “محصور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1764
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN