garip

See also: Garip

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish غریب (garib, “a stranger, a man away from home, strange, curious, surprising”), from Arabic غَرِيب (ḡarīb, “strange, peculiar, foreign, unfamiliar”), from غَرُبَ (ḡaruba, “to be a stranger, to be strange, odd, obscure”)..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈɾip/
• Hyphenation: ga‧rip

Adjective

garip

1. desolate, miserable, dejected
2. Away from home, stranger, foreign, peregrine.
3. strange, bizarre, weird
4. (figuratively) touching, inducing sadness

Declension

Predicative forms of garip

present tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I am)	garibim	garip miyim?
sen (you are)	garipsin	garip misin?
o (he/she/it is)	garip / gariptir	garip mi?
biz (we are)	garibiz	garip miyiz?
siz (you are)	garipsiniz	garip misiniz?
onlar (they are)	garip(ler)	garip(ler) mi?
past tense
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	gariptim	garip miydim?
sen (you were)	gariptin	garip miydin?
o (he/she/it was)	garipti	garip miydi?
biz (we were)	gariptik	garip miydik?
siz (you were)	gariptiniz	garip miydiniz?
onlar (they were)	gariptiler	garip miydiler?
indirect past
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (I was)	garipmişim	garip miymişim?
sen (you were)	garipmişsin	garip miymişsin?
o (he/she/it was)	garipmiş	garip miymiş?
biz (we were)	garipmişiz	garip miymişiz?
siz (you were)	garipmişsiniz	garip miymişsiniz?
onlar (they were)	garipmişler	garip miymişler?
conditional
	positive declarative	positive interrogative
ben (if I)	garipsem	garip miysem?
sen (if you)	garipsen	garip miysen?
o (if he/she/it)	garipse	garip miyse?
biz (if we)	garipsek	garip miysek?
siz (if you)	garipseniz	garip miyseniz?
onlar (if they)	garipseler	garip miyseler?

For negative forms, use the appropriate form of değil.

Noun

garip (definite accusative garibi, plural (archaic) garipler or gureba)

1. (Islam, Sufism) A dervish who considers himself a stranger and a guest in the mortal world and rejects worldly possessions.

Declension

Declension of garip

singular plural nominative garip garipler definite accusative garibi garipleri dative garibe gariplere locative garipte gariplerde ablative garipten gariplerden genitive garibin gariplerin Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular garibim gariplerim 2nd singular garipsin gariplersin 3rd singular garip gariptir garipler gariplerdir 1st plural garibiz garipleriz 2nd plural garipsiniz gariplersiniz 3rd plural garipler gariplerdir

Derived terms

• garibine gitmek
• garip bulmak
• gariplik
• garipsemek

Related terms

• garabet
• gariban
• garp
• gurbet
• gurup
• hilkat garibesi
• mağrip

Interjection

Garip!

1. surprising, strange, weird

Further reading

• “garip”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “garip”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1645
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN