"giaour" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒaʊə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈd͡ʒaʊəɹ/ [General-American] Forms: giaours [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French giaour, from Ottoman Turkish كاور (gâvur), from Classical Persian گَاوُر (gāwur), a variant of گَبْر (gabr, “infidel”); see there for more. Doublet of Gheber and Gueber. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|fr|giaour}} Borrowed from French giaour, {{der|en|ota|كاور|tr=gâvur}} Ottoman Turkish كاور (gâvur), {{der|en|fa-cls|گَاوُر}} Classical Persian گَاوُر (gāwur), {{doublet|en|Gheber|Gueber}} Doublet of Gheber and Gueber Head templates: {{en-noun}} giaour (plural giaours)
  1. (religious slur) A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians. Tags: slur Synonyms: kafir Translations (infidel): qafir [masculine] (Albanian), كَافِر (kāfir) [masculine] (Arabic), գյավուր (gyavur) (Armenian), gavur (Azerbaijani), kafir (Azerbaijani), гяу́р (gjaúr) [masculine] (Bulgarian), džaur [masculine] (Czech), ďaur [masculine] (Czech), ურჯულო (urǯulo) (Georgian), ურწმუნო (urc̣muno) (Georgian), გიაური (giauri) (Georgian), γκιαούρης (gkiaoúris) [masculine] (Greek), काफ़िर (kāfir) [masculine] (Hindi), gyaur (Hungarian), kafir (Indonesian), giaurro (Italian), кәпір (käpır) (Kazakh), каапыр (kaapır) (Kyrgyz), ѓаур (ǵaur) [masculine] (Macedonian), каурин (kaurin) (Macedonian), kafir (Malay), كاور (gâvur) (Ottoman Turkish), کافر (kâfer) (Persian), گبر (gabr) (Persian), گاور (gâvor) [archaic] (Persian), giaur [masculine] (Polish), giaour [masculine] (Portuguese), гяу́р (gjaúr) [masculine] (Russian), ка́фи́р (káfír) [masculine] (Russian), кя́фи́р (kjáfír) [masculine] (Russian), ђаур [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ђаурин [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), каур [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), каурин [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), đaur [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), đaurin [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kaur [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kaurin [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), кофир (kofir) (Tajik), габр (gabr) (Tajik), gâvur (Turkish), kâfir (Turkish), kapyr (Turkmen), гяу́р (hjaúr) [masculine] (Ukrainian), کافر (kāfir) [masculine] (Urdu), كاپىر (kapir) (Uyghur), kofir (Uzbek), gʻayridin (Uzbek), gawır (diq) (Zazaki)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "And far beyond the Moslem's power / Had wrong'd him with the faithless Giaour.",
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          "text": "We men are not a race of freebooters or giaours; not when our argosies are prey and food to the evil fish-of-metal whose lair is a German U-boat.",
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          "text": "Byron’s tale called The Giaour is supposed to be told by a Turkish fisherman who had been employed all the day in the gulf of Ægi’na, and landed his boat at night-fall on the Piræus, now called the harbor of Port Leonê.[…]The tale is this: Leilah, the beautiful concubine of the Caliph Hasson^([sic]), falls in love with a giaour, flees from the seraglio, is overtaken by an emir, put to death, and cast into the sea. The giaour cleaves Hassan’s skull, flees for his life, and becomes a monk.",
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          "code": "ka",
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          "roman": "urǯulo",
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          "word": "ურჯულო"
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          "code": "ka",
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
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          "word": "გიაური"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "gkiaoúris",
          "sense": "infidel",
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          "word": "γκιαούρης"
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          "code": "hi",
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          "roman": "kāfir",
          "sense": "infidel",
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          "code": "hu",
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          "code": "id",
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          "lang": "Kazakh",
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          "roman": "kâfer",
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        "2": "fa-cls",
        "3": "گَاوُر"
      },
      "expansion": "Classical Persian گَاوُر (gāwur)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Gheber",
        "3": "Gueber"
      },
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French giaour, from Ottoman Turkish كاور (gâvur), from Classical Persian گَاوُر (gāwur), a variant of گَبْر (gabr, “infidel”); see there for more. Doublet of Gheber and Gueber.",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Tajik translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Turkmen translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Urdu translations",
        "Terms with Uyghur translations",
        "Terms with Uzbek translations",
        "Terms with Zazaki translations",
        "Urdu terms with redundant script codes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: John Murray, page 10:",
          "text": "And far beyond the Moslem's power / Had wrong'd him with the faithless Giaour.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:",
          "text": "We men are not a race of freebooters or giaours; not when our argosies are prey and food to the evil fish-of-metal whose lair is a German U-boat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdağ M. Göknar, My Name Is Red:",
          "text": "I shudder in delight when I think of two-hundred-year-old books, dating back to the time of Tamerlane, volumes for which acquisitive giaours gleefully relinquish gold pieces and which they carry all the way back to their own countries[…].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, “The Giaour”, in Character Sketches Of Romance, Fiction And The Drama, volume 2, page 85:",
          "text": "Byron’s tale called The Giaour is supposed to be told by a Turkish fisherman who had been employed all the day in the gulf of Ægi’na, and landed his boat at night-fall on the Piræus, now called the harbor of Port Leonê.[…]The tale is this: Leilah, the beautiful concubine of the Caliph Hasson^([sic]), falls in love with a giaour, flees from the seraglio, is overtaken by an emir, put to death, and cast into the sea. The giaour cleaves Hassan’s skull, flees for his life, and becomes a monk.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians."
      ],
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        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
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          "slur",
          "slur"
        ],
        [
          "non-Muslim",
          "non-Muslim"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ],
        [
          "infidel",
          "infidel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(religious slur) A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "kafir"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒaʊə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒaʊəɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "qafir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "kāfir",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "كَافِر"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "gyavur",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "գյավուր"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "gavur"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "kafir"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gjaúr",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гяу́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "džaur"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ďaur"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "urǯulo",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "ურჯულო"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "urc̣muno",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "ურწმუნო"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "giauri",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "გიაური"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "gkiaoúris",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "γκιαούρης"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "kāfir",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "काफ़िर"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "gyaur"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "kafir"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "giaurro"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "käpır",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "кәпір"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "kaapır",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "каапыр"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ǵaur",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ѓаур"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kaurin",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "каурин"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "kafir"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "gâvur",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "كاور"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "kâfer",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "کافر"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "gabr",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "گبر"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "gâvor",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "گاور"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "giaur"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "giaour"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gjaúr",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гяу́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "káfír",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ка́фи́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kjáfír",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кя́фи́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ђаур"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ђаурин"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "каур"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "каурин"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "đaur"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "đaurin"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kaur"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kaurin"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "kofir",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "кофир"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "gabr",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "габр"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "gâvur"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "kâfir"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "kapyr"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hjaúr",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гяу́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "kāfir",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "کافر"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "kapir",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "كاپىر"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "kofir"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "gʻayridin"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "infidel",
      "word": "gawır (diq)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "giaour"
}

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