حكمدار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic حُكْم (ḥukm) +‎ Persian دار (dâr). By surface analysis, حكم +‎ ـدار. Compare Azerbaijani hökmdar, Turkmen hökümdar, Uyghur ھۈكۈمدار (hükümdar), Uzbek hukmdor.

Noun

حكمدار • (hükümdar) (plural حكمداران (hükümdaran))

  1. monarch, ruler, sovereign

Descendants

  • Turkish: hükümdar

References

  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “hükümdar”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “حكمدار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 514
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