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giaour

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giaour  (jour)
n. Islam
A nonbeliever; an infidel.
[Alteration of obsolete gower, gour, from Turkish gâvur, from Persian gabr, infidel, Zoroastrian, from Arabic kfir, infidel, from kafr, village, from Aramaic kapr; see kpr2 in Semitic roots.]
giaour [ˈdʒaʊə]
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Islam) a derogatory term for a non-Muslim, esp a Christian, used esp by the Turks
[from Turkish giaur unbeliever, from Persian gaur, variant of gäbr]


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A Poet's Pessimism The city won for Allah from the Giaour, The Giaour from Ottoman's race again may wrest; And the Serai's impenetrable tower Receive the fiery Frank, her former guest; Or Wahab's rebel brood who dared divest The prophet's tomb of all its pious spoil, May wind their path of blood along the West; But ne'er will freedom seek this fated soil, But slave succeed to slave through years of endless toil.
A Poet's Pessimism by Byron, George Gordon, Lord / The National Interest
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