mutasarrif
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From Ottoman Turkish متصرف (mutasarrıf, “governor of a sanjak”) (modern Turkish mutasarrıf), from Arabic مُتَصَرِّف (mutaṣarrif, “autonomous one, governor of a province”), from تَصَرَّفَ (taṣarrafa, “to act, to act independently”).
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mutasarrif (plural mutasarrifs)
- (politics) The governor of a province in some Muslim contexts, particularly (historical) in the Ottoman Empire.
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- “mutasarrif, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2022..
- "mutessarif." Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary via Dictionary.com.
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