حكمدار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic حُكْم (ḥukm) +‎ Persian دار (dâr). By surface analysis, حكم +‎ ـدار. Compare Azerbaijani hökmdar, Turkmen hökümdar, Uyghur ھۈكۈمدار (hükümdar), Uzbek hukmdor.

Noun

حكمدار • (hükümdar)

1. monarch, ruler, sovereign

Descendants

• Turkish: hükümdar

References

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “hükümdar”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حكمدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 514