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noun
A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
An Ottoman official who acted as grand vizier and governor of Constantinople during any absence or illness of the incumbent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
An Ottoman official who acted as beylerbey of Egypt between regular appointments.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
An Ottoman official who acted as hospodar of Moldavia or Wallachia during any absence or illness of the incumbent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
A lieutenant colonel in the Ottoman or early Turkish army, replaced by the rank of yarbay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
Synonym of sanjakbey during the mid-19th century.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, politics
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Synonyms: sanjakbey during the mid-19th century
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
An Ottoman official who oversaw a kaza during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; similar positions in Ottoman successor states.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
A local administrator in Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Iraq, and Lebanon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, politics
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History
From Ottoman Turkish قایمقام (kaymakam), from Arabic مَقَام قَائِم (qāʔim maqām, “stand in”).
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
