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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مخابر. Probably a late Ottoman coinage but Arabic مُخَابِر (muḵābir) would be a regular formation from خَابَرَ (ḵābara, “to write to, to contact”). Compare Azerbaijani müxbir from a different form of the same root.
Noun
muhabir (definite accusative muhabiri, plural muhabirler)
- correspondent, reporter
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References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muhabir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مخبار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1770
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN