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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish تكفور, from Arabic تَكْفُور (takfūr), from Middle Armenian թագւոր (tʻagwor), from Old Armenian թագաւոր (tʻagawor, “king”), from Parthian *tag(a)-bar (“king”, literally “crown bearing”), borrowed during the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: tek‧fur
Noun
tekfur (definite accusative tekfuru, plural tekfurlar)
- a Christian bey in Anatolia and Thrace during the Byzantine era
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References
- Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “թագ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 136
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § 148, page 44
- Parlatır, İsmail et al. (1998) “tekfur”, in Türkçe Sözlük, 9th edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 163b