زوربه

• زورابا (zorba)

Borrowed from Persian زورباز (zôrbâz).

زوربه • (zorba)

1. rebel, rioter, a person who resists an authority
2. one who takes property by force, extorter

• زوربهلق (zorbalık, “oppression, violence”)

• Turkish: zorba
• → Aromanian: zurbã
• → Armenian: զոռբա (zoṙba)
• → Bulgarian: зорба́ (zorbá)
• → Georgian: ზორბა (zorba)
• → Greek: ζορμπάς (zormpás)
• → Romanian: zurba
• → Serbo-Croatian: zòrba, зо̀рба

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• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zorba”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زورابا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1018