mülazım
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish ملازم (mülazim), from Arabic مُلَازِم (mulāzim), active participle of لَازَمَ (lāzama). The original sense of persistence and inseparability evolved to mean an assistant.
Noun
[edit]mülazım (definite accusative mülazımı, plural mülazımlar)
- (military, obsolete) lieutenant
- Synonym: teğmen
- (obsolete or historical) novice; assistant
References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ملازم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1218
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mülazım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ملازم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1979
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN