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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مجذوب (mecẕub, “attracted, whose thoughts are attracted to God, so as to be careless of earthly things, hence (vulgar) crazy”),[1][2] from Arabic مَجْذُوب (majḏūb), passive participle of جَذَبَ (jaḏaba, “to attract, to pull, to persuade”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /med͡ʒˈzup/, (definite accusative) /med͡ʒˈzuːbu/
- Hyphenation: mec‧zup
Noun
meczup (definite accusative meczubu, plural meczuplar)
- (dated) A person who has gone hysterical due to their affection to God.
- (dated) A person who has gone crazy, insane.
- Synonyms: deli, mecnun, çılgın
- Fyodor Pavloviç'in, yüksek ihtimalle, bir gece evine gelen meczup bir kadından gayrimeşru bir oğlu daha vardır. ― Fyodor Pavlovich, most likely, has another, illegitimate son from a crazy woman, who came to his house one night.
Declension
References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجذوب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1748
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجذوب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1121
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meczup”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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