Giaour
Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha by Eugène Delacroix (1827, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago). Inspired by Lord Byron's poem The Giaour.
Giaour, Gawur or Ghiaour written gâvur in modern Turkish, is an offensive ethnic slur used by Muslims in Turkey and the Balkans to describe all who are non Muslim, with particular reference to Christians like Greeks, Armenians (գյավուր), Bulgarians (Гяур), Serbs (Kaurin) and Assyrians.
The word is a Turkish adaptation of the Persian ghebar, a parsi. The term is considered highly offensive by Christians in the Balkans.
- Turkish: gâvur
- Armenian: գյավուր (Gyavur)
- Serbian: Каурин (Kaurin) / Ђаур (Đaur)
- Bulgarian: Гяур (Gyaur) or Каур (Kaur)
- Albanian: Kaurr
- Romanian: Ghiaur
- Greek: γκιαούρης (Giaouris)
See also
Look up giaour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- The Giaour, a poem by Lord Byron
References
- ^ James Lewis Farley, Turks and Christians, Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 1402187866
- ^ James Finn. Stirring Times, Or, Records from Jerusalem Consular Chronicles of 1853 To 1856, 2004, p. 12
- ^ http://www.srpska-mreza.com/bookstore/kosovo/kosovo5.htm
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
