Definition of Giaur
Giaour, the Turkish name for an unbeliever in the Mohammedan faith,
and especially for a Christian in that regard.
- Wikipedia
||Giaour (?), n. [Turk. giaur an
infidel, Per. gawr, another form of ghebr fire
worshiper. Cf. Kaffir, Gheber .] An infidel; -- a
term applied by Turks to disbelievers in the Mohammedan religion,
especially Christrians. Byron.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a non-Muslim, especially a Christian; an infidel
*1963: 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. — Thomas Pynchon, V.
*2001: 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 — Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. Erdağ M Göknar
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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