eunuch

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English - Turkish
{i} hadım
çekingen
haremağası

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chief white eunuch
(Tarih) kapı ağası
eunuchism
(Tıp) Hadımlık
eunuchs
(Tıp) enük
English - English
Referring to a castrato, or boy castrated to retain soprano or alto voice
Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials
A castrated human male
Referring to someone or something which has been emasculated. (very rare)
{n} a castrated person
A eunuch is a man who has had his testicles removed. a man whose testicles have been removed, especially someone who guarded a king's wives in some Eastern countries in the past (eunuchus, from eunouchos, from eune + echein ). Castrated human male. From remote antiquity on, eunuchs were employed in the Middle East and China as guards and servants in harems or other women's quarters and as chamberlains to kings. The eunuchs' confidential position frequently enabled them to exercise an important influence over their royal masters. Many of the patriarchs of Constantinople during Byzantine times were eunuchs. Eunuch advisers disappeared as a class only with the end of the Ottoman Empire. See also castrato
{i} castrated man or boy; castrated man who works as a harem attendant; (Informal) inefficient or unmasculine man
a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem"
Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank
Such a man who was harem guard or in Middle Eastern courts under Roman Emperors, important officials of the state
To make a eunuch of; to castrate
as a man
A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments
a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem

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{n} the state of being emasculated
Female Eunuch
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a eunuch
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eunuchism
{i} practice or process of making eunuchs; state of being castrated; castration, emasculation
eunuchism
The state of being eunuch
eunuchs
plural of eunuch
Turkish - English

Definition of eunuch in Turkish English dictionary

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kızlar ağası chief black eunuch
(in the sultan's harem)
eunuch

    Hyphenation

    eu·nuch

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    Etymology

    [ 'yü-n&k, -nik ] (noun.) 15th century. Borrowed from Latin eunuchus, originally from Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoukhos) from εὐνή (eunē, “bed”) + ἔχω (ekhō, “I have, keep”). Originally probably used to refer to a bed chamber attendant.
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