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garip.

desolate, miserable, dejected

5 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

adj/ɡaˈɾip/

  1. desolate, miserable, dejected

  2. Away from home, stranger, foreign, peregrine.

  3. strange, bizarre, weird

  4. touching, inducing sadness

    figuratively
Where this word comes from

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

noun/ɡaˈɾip/

  1. A dervish who considers himself a stranger and a guest in the mortal world and rejects worldly possessions.

Where this word comes from

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

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