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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish متجاسر (mütecasir), from Arabic مُتَجَاسِر (mutajāsir), active participle of تَجَاسَرَ (tajāsara, “to dare, venture, risk; to be bold, insolent, impudent”).
Adjective
mütecasir (obsolete)
- daring; audacious
- presumptious; arrogant
1937 November 13, “Dobricede Türkler aleyhine fesad”, in Cumhuriyet, page 3:Birkaç gün evvel Dobrice köylerinde Türkiye aleyhinde beyannameler dağıtıldığı haber alınmış, hükûmetin önliyici tedbirlerile mütecasirleri yakalanmıştır.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mütecâsir”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 909
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “متجاسر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1105
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “جسر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN