memur

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مأمور (meʼmur), from Arabic مَأْمُور (maʔmūr).

Noun

memur m (plural memuri)

1. civil servant

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	memur	memurul		memuri	memurii
genitive-dative	memur	memurului		memuri	memurilor
vocative	memurule			memurilor

References

• memur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مأمور (meʼmur, “officer, agent”), from Arabic مَأْمُور (maʔmūr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːmʊɾ/

Noun

memur (definite accusative memuru, plural memurlar)

1. (originally) civil servant
2. Anybody assigned to a job or responsibility

   memur etmek ― to assign to a job

3. incumbent

Declension

Declension of memur

singular plural nominative memur memurlar definite accusative memuru memurları dative memura memurlara locative memurda memurlarda ablative memurdan memurlardan genitive memurun memurların Predicative forms singular plural 1st singular memurum memurlarım 2nd singular memursun memurlarsın 3rd singular memur memurdur memurlar memurlardır 1st plural memuruz memurlarız 2nd plural memursunuz memurlarsınız 3rd plural memurlar memurlardır

Derived terms

• başmemur

Related terms

• memuriyet
• memurluk

See also

• görevli
• yükümlü

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “memur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3132
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “memur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük