muteber

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish معتبر (muteber), from Arabic مُعْتَبَر (muʕtabar). Compare Azerbaijani mötəbər.

Adjective

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muteber

  1. respected, respectable
  2. legal, valid

References

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  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muteber”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معتبر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1901
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN