korsan

Betekenis (English)

1. pirate
2. privateer

Synonyms

çapulcu

haydut

yağmacı

soyguncu

kaçıran

Gekoppel as

kor‧san

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

[koɾsan]

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish: قرصان

In summary

From Ottoman Turkish قرصان (korsan, “pirate”), from Arabic قُرْصَان (qurṣān, “pirate”), from Italian corsale (“corsair, privateer”), from Medieval Latin cursārius (“pirate, sea-raider”), from Latin cursus (“course, a running; plunder, hostile inroad”). Doublet of kurs and kur.