English
Etymology
From Turkish gavur|gâvur, from Persian gaur, a variant of gabr, probably from Arabic ARchar|ÙاÙر âunbelieverâ.
Pronunciation
IPA|/ËʤaÊÉ/
Noun
en-noun
- A non-Muslim, especially a Christian; an infidel.
#*1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
#*: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.
#*2001, Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red, tr. ErdaÄ M Göknar:
#*: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 [...].
vi:giaour
zh:giaour
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