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kamu.

whole, solely

4 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈkamu/

  1. whole, solely

    not-comparable · obsolete
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Ottoman Turkish قمو (qamu), خمو (hamu), from Proto-Turkic *kamug. Was already obsolete in the Istanbul dialect by the 17th Century, but was reintroduced during the language reforms as a Turkic equivalent of Arabic umum. Doublet of hamı and hamu. Compare Azerbaijani hamı.

noun/ˈkamu/

  1. public

  2. people

  3. all organs of government doing public service

    collective
Where this word comes from

Learned borrowing from Ottoman Turkish قمو (qamu), خمو (hamu), from Proto-Turkic *kamug. Was already obsolete in the Istanbul dialect by the 17th Century, but was reintroduced during the language reforms as a Turkic equivalent of Arabic umum. Doublet of hamı and hamu. Compare Azerbaijani hamı.

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