önder

See also: onder, Önder, and onder-

Turkish

Etymology

Neologism, coined as part of Atatürks’s language reforms, from the locative önde of ön (“front”) + -r, with the form probably also influenced by the earlier loan lider or by the Persian suffix -dar/-der, compare Turkish dindar.

Noun

önder (definite accusative önderi, plural önderler)

1. leader

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: öndər

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “önder”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 123

Anagrams

• döner