mecburi

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مجبوری, from Arabic مَجْبُور (majbūr). By surface analysis, mecbur (“compelled”) +‎ -i (nisba suffix).

Adjective

mecburi

1. mandatory, compulsory, obligatory

   Synonym: zorunlu

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mecbûrî”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 709
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN