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Definition: GIAOUR |
GIAOURNoun1. An infidel; -- a term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion, especially Christrians. |
Date "GIAOUR" was first used: 1564. (references) |
Note: Giaour \Giaour\, noun. [Turk. giaur an infidel, Per. gawr, another form of ghebr fire worshiper. Compare to Kaffir, Gheber .]. (references) |
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Literature | Giaour (jow'-er). An unbeliever, one who disbelieves the Mahometan faith. A corruption of the Arabic Kiafir. It has now become so common that it scarcely implies insult, but has about the force of the word "Gentile," meaning "not a Jew." Byron has a poetical tale so called, but he has not given the giaour a name. "The city won for Allah from the Giaour, The Giaour from Othman's race again may Wrest." Byron: Childe Harold, canto ii. stanza 77. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heterodoxy | Heretic, apostate, antichrist; pagan, heathen; painim, paynim; giaour; gentile; pantheist, polytheist; idolator. |
Irreligion | Atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene; espri fort, freethinker, rationalist; materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GIAOUR |
| Specialty definitions using "GIAOUR": Alla, Arnauts ♦ INFIDEL ♦ Leilah, Liakura ♦ Mainote. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GIAOUR": Gheber Ghebre. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
giaour | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "GIAOUR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | ghiaur. (various references) | |
Russian | гяур. (various references) | |
Turkish | gâvur (infidel, non muslim, unbeliever). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Persian | 800-Modern | gaur. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GIAOUR": giaours. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: guiro. | |
-2 letters: agio, gaur, giro, guar, ragi, ruga. | |
-3 letters: ago, air, gar, goa, gor, oar, ora, our, rag, ria, rig, rug. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, ar, go, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: giaours, gourami. | |
+2 letters: arousing, autogiro, gouramis, gracious, oliguria, origanum, rigaudon, uropygia. | |
+3 letters: armouring, audiogram, aureoling, authoring, autogiros, carousing, favouring, fumigator, gouramies, ignoramus, labouring, neuroglia, oligurias, origanums, outdaring, outracing, outraging, outrating, outraving, purgation, ragouting, rigaudons, savouring, tabouring, trialogue, upsoaring, vagarious, vapouring. | |
+4 letters: accoutring, adjourning, armigerous, audiograms, ausforming, clamouring, discourage, enamouring, fairground, figuration, flavouring, fumigators, glamouring, glamourize, glycosuria, graciously, graduation, gramineous, granulosis, gratuitous, gregarious, harbouring, jaguarondi, migrainous, neuroglial, neuroglias, obturating, outarguing, outbargain, outbarking, outbraving, outdrawing, outearning, outglaring, outhearing, outpraying, outraising, outranging, outranking, outreading, outroaring, outsoaring, outstaring, outtrading, outwarring, outwearing, purgations, rearousing, regulation, seaborgium, sporangium, tambouring, trialogues, ungracious, unoriginal, uphoarding, urogenital, urological, viraginous. | |
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