murtat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish mürtet, from Arabic مُرْتَدّ (murtadd, “apostate, infidel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǔrtat/
• Hyphenation: mur‧tat

Noun

mùrtat m (Cyrillic spelling му̀ртат)

1. (rare, Bosnia) traitor, betrayer
2. (Islam) apostate

Derived terms

• murtatin

Further reading

• “murtat”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024