mücrim

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مجرم (“culprit; sinner”), from Arabic مُجْرِم (mujrim, “criminal”).

Adjective

mücrim

  1. culpable, guilty

Noun

mücrim (definite accusative mücrimi, plural mücrimler)

  1. criminal; convict; culprit
    • 1945 March 8, “Harb suçluları”, in Cumhuriyet, Istanbul, page 1:
      Göbbels ve Ribbentrop da mücrimler listesine girdi
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. sinner

References
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجرم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1122
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mücrim”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجرم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1749
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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