meczup

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Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مجذوب (mecẕub, attracted, whose thoughts are attracted to God, so as to be careless of earthly things, hence (vulgar) crazy),[1][2] from Arabic مَجْذُوب (majḏūb), passive participle of جَذَبَ (jaḏaba, to attract, to pull, to persuade).[3]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /med͡ʒˈzup/, (definite accusative) /med͡ʒˈzuːbu/
  • Hyphenation: mec‧zup

Noun

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meczup (definite accusative meczubu, plural meczuplar)

  1. (dated) A person who has gone hysterical due to their affection to God.
  2. (dated) A person who has gone crazy, insane.
    Synonyms: deli, mecnun, çılgın
    Fyodor Pavloviç'in, yüksek ihtimalle, bir gece evine gelen meczup bir kadından gayrimeşru bir oğlu daha vardır.Fyodor Pavlovich, most likely, has another, illegitimate son from a crazy woman, who came to his house one night.

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative meczup
Definite accusative meczubu
Singular Plural
Nominative meczup meczuplar
Definite accusative meczubu meczupları
Dative meczuba meczuplara
Locative meczupta meczuplarda
Ablative meczuptan meczuplardan
Genitive meczubun meczupların
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular meczubum meczuplarım
2nd singular meczupsun meczuplarsın
3rd singular meczup
meczuptur
meczuplar
meczuplardır
1st plural meczubuz meczuplarız
2nd plural meczupsunuz meczuplarsınız
3rd plural meczuplar meczuplardır
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References

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  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجذوب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1748
  2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجذوب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1121
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meczup”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

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