See also: Garip

Turkish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Ottoman Turkish غریب (garib, a stranger, a man away from home, strange, curious, surprising),[1][2] from Arabic غَرِيب (ḡarīb, strange, peculiar, foreign, unfamiliar), from غَرُبَ (ḡaruba, to be a stranger, to be strange, odd, obscure).[3].

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡaˈɾip/
  • Hyphenation: ga‧rip

Adjective

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garip

  1. desolate, miserable, dejected
  2. Away from home, stranger, foreign, peregrine.
  3. strange, bizarre, weird
  4. (figuratively) touching, inducing sadness

Declension

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Noun

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garip (definite accusative garibi, plural (archaic) garipler or gureba)

  1. (Islam, Sufism) A dervish who considers himself a stranger and a guest in the mortal world and rejects worldly possessions.

Declension

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Inflection
Nominative garip
Definite accusative garibi
Singular Plural
Nominative garip garipler
Definite accusative garibi garipleri
Dative garibe gariplere
Locative garipte gariplerde
Ablative garipten gariplerden
Genitive garibin gariplerin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular garibim gariplerim
2nd singular garipsin gariplersin
3rd singular garip
gariptir
garipler
gariplerdir
1st plural garibiz garipleriz
2nd plural garipsiniz gariplersiniz
3rd plural garipler gariplerdir

Derived terms

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Interjection

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Garip!

  1. surprising, strange, weird

References

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  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غریب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1343
  2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “غریب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 872
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “garip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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