زوربه

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Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Persian زورباز (zôrbâz).

Noun

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زوربه (zorba)

  1. rebel, rioter, a person who resists an authority
  2. one who takes property by force, extorter

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Further reading

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  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zorba”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5497
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زوربه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 650
  • Kakuk, Suzanne (1973) “zorba”, in Recherches sur l’histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise (Near and Middle East Monographs; 17) (in French), The Hague and Paris: Mouton, page 432
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rebellis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 1438
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زوربه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2483
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zorba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زورابا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1018