Turkish - English
Definition of memluk in Turkish English dictionary
- mameluke
- One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, at times, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811
I hastened to buy many slaves of both sexes, mamluks, beautiful veiled women, negroes, lands, houses and other property... - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night.
- a white slave
- One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811
- {i} member of a military unit that was made-up of slaves converted to Mohammedanism that seized control of the sultanate in 1250 in Egypt and held the throne until 1517 and continued in power until 1811 when it was exterminated by Mehemet Ali; (in Muslim countries) slave
Turkish - Turkish
Definition of memluk in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- (Osmanlı Dönemi) Birinin malı olan
- (Hukuk) Birinin malı olan, kul, köle
- (Osmanlı Dönemi) Köle. Kul. Esir. Bende. Hizmetkâr
- (Osmanlı Dönemi) köle, kul, esir; bende, hizmetkâr, Allah'a âit olan
- memlûk
- Köle
- memlûk
- Kölemenlerden olan kimse