حیدود

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian hajdúk (“armed cattle-drover; hajduk”). Doublet of هودوك (hödük, “boor, peasant”).

Noun

حیدود • (haydud)

1. (originally) hajduk, a mercenary foot soldier, often a peasant, in Hungary
2. (by extension) brigand, bandit, one who robs others in a lawless area

   Synonyms: شقی (şakı), هایطه (hayta)

Derived terms

• حیدودلق (haydudluk, “brigandage”)

Descendants

• Turkish: haydut
• → Albanian: hajdut
• → Armenian: հայտուտ (haytut)
• → Libyan Arabic: هِيدُوق (hīdūg)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haydut”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1912
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “حیدود”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 203a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حیدود”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 523
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حیدود”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1824
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “haydut”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حیدود”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 815