mebusan

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مبعوثان (mebusan), plural of Arabic مَبْعُوث (mabʕūṯ).

Noun

mebusan (definite accusative mebusanı, plural mebusanlar)

  1. (obsolete or historical) deputies; members of parliament
    • 1932 March 7, “Halife olmak istiyen meb'usan reisi”, in Vakit:
      Osmanlı meclisi meb'usanının son reisi Celâlettin Arif bey 1929 senesinde Pariste bir otelde ölmüştu.
      The Ottoman parliament's last leader Celâlettin Arif Bey died in 1929 in a Paris hotel.

References
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مبعوثان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1102
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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