bekâr
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بكار (bekâr, “bachelor”), from Arabic بِكْر (bikr, “virgin”). Historically confused with the homophone بیكار (bekâr, “unemployed”), from Classical Persian بیکَار (bēkār).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bekâr (definite accusative bekârı, plural bekârlar)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “بكار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 272a
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bekâr”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- “bekâr”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu