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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مستولی (müstevli), from Arabic مُسْتَوْلٍ (mustawlin), active participle of اِسْتَوْلَى (istawlā, “to appropriate”).
Noun
müstevli (definite accusative müstevliyi, plural müstevliler) (archaic)
- invader
- Synonyms: istilacı, yayılmacı
- 1940 May 14, headline in Tasviri Efkâr:
Müstevliler çok ağır zayiat veriyorlar- Invaders suffer very heavy losses
- outbreak; epidemic
2020, Arzu Yalçın, Mustafa Saygın, “Milli Mücadelede Sıtmaya Karşı Hilal-i Ahmer Cemiyetinin Rolü [The role of the Red Crescent Society against malaria in the national struggle]”, in SDU Medical Faculty Journal, →DOI:Malarya müstevli 1924 senesinde çok kötü boyutlara erişti, çiftçiler topraklarını bıraktılar, kentlerde ise varlıklı insanları ve bütün milleti etkiledi.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Adjective
müstevli (archaic)
- infectious; invading; prevalent; epidemic
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “müstevli”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1165a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müstevli”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “موتول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1851
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 835