Turkish
- meczub (superseded spelling)
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مجذوب (mecẕub, “attracted, whose thoughts are attracted to God, so as to be careless of earthly things, hence (vulgar) crazy”),[1][2] from Arabic مَجْذُوب (majḏūb), passive participle of جَذَبَ (jaḏaba, “to attract, to pull, to persuade”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /med͡ʒˈzup/, (definite accusative) /med͡ʒˈzuːbu/
- Hyphenation: mec‧zup
Noun
meczup (definite accusative meczubu, plural meczuplar)
- (dated) A person who has gone hysterical due to their affection to God.
- (dated) A person who has gone crazy, insane.
- Synonyms: deli, mecnun, çılgın
- Fyodor Pavloviç'in, yüksek ihtimalle, bir gece evine gelen meczup bir kadından gayrimeşru bir oğlu daha vardır. ― Fyodor Pavlovich, most likely, has another, illegitimate son from a crazy woman, who came to his house one night.
Declension
Declension of meczup
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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meczup
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meczuplar
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| definite accusative
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meczubu
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meczupları
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| dative
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meczuba
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meczuplara
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| locative
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meczupta
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meczuplarda
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| ablative
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meczuptan
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meczuplardan
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| genitive
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meczubun
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meczupların
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Predicative forms
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singular
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plural
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| 1st singular
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meczubum
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meczuplarım
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| 2nd singular
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meczupsun
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meczuplarsın
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| 3rd singular
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meczup
meczuptur
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meczuplar
meczuplardır
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| 1st plural
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meczubuz
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meczuplarız
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| 2nd plural
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meczupsunuz
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meczuplarsınız
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| 3rd plural
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meczuplar
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meczuplardır
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجذوب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1748
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجذوب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1121
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “meczup”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading