muhabir

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مخابر. Probably a late Ottoman coinage but Arabic مُخَابِر (muḵābir) would be a regular formation from خَابَرَ (ḵābara, “to write to, to contact”). Compare Azerbaijani müxbir from a different form of the same root.

Noun

muhabir (definite accusative muhabiri, plural muhabirler)

1. correspondent, reporter [from 19th c.]

Related terms

• muhbir

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muhabir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مخابر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1770
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN