önder

See also: onder, Önder, and onder-

Turkish

Etymology

Neologism, coined as part of Atatürks’s language reforms, from the locative önde of ön (“front”) + -r, with the form probably also influenced by the earlier loan lider or by the Persian suffix -dar/-der, compare Turkish dindar.

Noun

önder (definite accusative önderi, plural önderler)

  1. leader

Anagrams

Descendants

References
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “önder”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Lewis, Geoffrey (1999) The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, page 123
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