بكار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بِكْر (bikr, “virgin”), but historically confused with the homophone بیكار (bekâr, “unemployed”), a word of Persian origin. Doublet of بكر (bikr, “virgin”).

Adjective

بكار • (bekâr)

  1. (of a man) celibate, unmarried, single, unwed, having no wife
    Synonyms: اركن (ergen), عزب (ʼazeb), مجرد (mücerred)

Noun

بكار • (bekâr) (definite accusative بكاری (bekârı), plural بكارلر (bekârlar))

  1. bachelor, a person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet
    Synonym: عازب (ʼazib)

Descendants

  • Turkish: bekâr
  • → Albanian: beqar
  • → Armenian: պէքեար (pēkʻear)
  • → Greek: μπεκιάρης (bekiáris)
  • → Macedonian: беќар (beḱar)
  • → Romanian: becher
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бѐћа̄р
    Latin script: bèćār

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