mübadil

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مبادل (mübadil), a late Ottoman Turkish coinage modeled on the active participle of Arabic بَادَلَ (bādala).

Noun

mübadil (definite accusative mübadili, plural mübadiller) (archaic)

1. substitute; something exchanged
2. (specifically, historical) Participant in the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in 1923.

Related terms

• mübadele

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mübâdil”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 835
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN