muteber

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish معتبر (muteber), from Arabic مُعْتَبَر (muʕtabar). Compare Azerbaijani mötəbər.

Adjective

muteber

  1. respected, respectable
  2. legal, valid

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muteber”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معتبر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1901
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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