زیبك

Ottoman Turkish

زیبك

Etymology

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Noun

زیبك • (zeybek) (plural زیبكلر (zeybekler))

1. a Turkish tribe in the region of İzmir [subdued under Mehmed II]
2. a kind of light infantryman [originally armed police forces of the Seljuk state]
3. guerrillero, partisan, Robin Hood, vagabond, highland swashbuckler [after the Celali rebellions]

Descendants

• Turkish: zeybek
• → Armenian: զեյպեկ (zeypek)
• → German: Zeibek
• → Russian: зейбек (zejbek)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: зѐјбек

  Latin script: zèjbek

Further reading

• Zeybeks on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zeybek (Titel) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Zeybek (unvan) on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr