bekâr
Turkish
editEtymology
editInherited from Ottoman Turkish بكار (bekâr, “bachelor”), from Arabic بِكْر (bikr, “virgin”). Historically confused with the homophone بیكار (bekâr, “unemployed”), a word of Persian origin.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbekâr (definite accusative bekârı, plural bekârlar)
- bachelor; unmarried person
Declension
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بكار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 272a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bekâr”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “bekâr”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu