mugayir

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مغایر (mugayir), from Arabic مُغَايِر (muḡāyir), active participle of غَايَرَ (ḡāyara, “to be different, in contrast to, unlike”).

Adjective

mugayir (archaic)

  1. (with dative) opposed to, contrary to
    kanuna mugayir ― contrary to law

References
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mugayir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مغایر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1919
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “غار”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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