mağdur
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مغدور (mağdur), from Arabic مَغْدُور (maḡdūr), passive participle of غَدَرَ (ḡadara, “to betray, desert”).Nişanyan considers this a pseudo-loan, a regular Arabic formation not attested in Arabic when it appeared in Ottoman Turkish in the 19th century.
Adjective
mağdur
- treated unjustly
Noun
mağdur (definite accusative mağduru, plural mağdurlar)
- (law) victim
Derived terms
- mağduriyet
Further reading
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “mağdur”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3009
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مغدور”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1198b
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mağdur”, in Nişanyan Sözlük