korsan

Meaning

1. pirate
2. privateer

Concepts

pirate

filibuster

freebooter

buccaneer

corsair

rover

picaroon

plunderer

privateer

rapparee

viking

hacker

black hat hacker

hijacker

Synonyms

çapulcu

haydut

yağmacı

soyguncu

kaçıran

Translations

Pirat

pirate

pirata

corsaire

piraat

Seeräuber

pirata

pirata

pirata

boekanier

pirata

Korsar

πειρατής

pirata

Pronounced as (IPA)

[koɾsan]

Etymology

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.