mezun
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Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مأذون (mezun), from Arabic مَأْذُون (maʔḏūn), passive participle of أَذِنَ (ʔaḏina).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mezun
- (education) graduated
- 1934 September 28, “Harp Akademisinin bu seneki mezunları [This year's war college graduates]”, in Hakimiyeti Milliye:
- İki gün önce yani 26 eylûl salı günü İstanbul'da harp akademisinde bu sene akademiden mezun olan kara ve deniz zabitlerimize merasimle diplomaları dağıtılmıştır.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (archaic) permitted; authorized, licensed
Related terms
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mezun”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مأذون”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1654
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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