مخير
Arabic
Etymology
Past participle of خَيَّرَ (ḵayyara, “to choose”)
Adjective
مُخَيَّر • (muḵayyar) (feminine مُخَيَّرَة (muḵayyara), masculine plural مُخَيَّرُونَ (muḵayyarūna), feminine plural مُخَيَّرَات (muḵayyarāt))
- having the choice or option
- (philosophy) having free will
- Antonym: مُسَيَّر (musayyar)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: müxəyyər
- → Italian: mocaiardo, mocaiarro
- → English: mocayre, mohair
- → French: moucayar, moucayard, mocayar, mocaiar
- → Middle Armenian: մուխայեար (muxayear)
- Armenian: մուխայար (muxayar)
- → Old East Slavic: мухояръ (muxojarŭ)
- Russian: мухоя́р (muxojár)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مخیر (muhayyer)
- Turkish: muhayyer
- → Persian: مخیر (moxayyar)
References
- Wehr, Hans (1979) “خير”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 309
Further reading
- Lokotsch, Karl (1927) Etymologisches Wörterbuch der europäischen Wörter orientalischen Ursprungs (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, § 1497, page 120a
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