komutan

Turkish

Etymology

A post-Ottoman coinage from a Turkic root to replace the French borrowing kumanda.

Noun

komutan (definite accusative komutanı, plural komutanlar)

  1. commander

Derived terms
  • komutanlık

References
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “komutan”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, 2013, →ISBN
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