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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مجبوری, from Arabic مَجْبُور (majbūr).
By surface analysis, mecbur (“compelled”) + -i (nisba suffix).
Adjective
mecburi
- mandatory, compulsory, obligatory
- Synonym: zorunlu
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mecbûrî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 709
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN