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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مغایر (mugayir), from Arabic مُغَايِر (muḡāyir), active participle of غَايَرَ (ḡāyara, “to be different, in contrast to, unlike”).
Adjective
mugayir (archaic)
- (with dative) opposed to, contrary to
- kanuna mugayir ― contrary to law
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mugayir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مغایر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1919
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “غار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN