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Serbo-Croatian
Adjective
medeni
- inflection of meden:
- masculine nominative/vocative plural
- definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
- definite inanimate masculine accusative singular
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مدنی (“city dweller; civilized”), from Arabic مَدَنِيّ (madaniyy).
Adjective
medeni
- civilized, cultured
- civil
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مدنی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1141
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “medeni”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN