different between cyprus vs mukhtar

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kúpros, “henna”), from Akkadian ???????????? (kupru, “bitumen, pitch”) from Akkadian ???????????? (kap?ru, “to smear, to daub on”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ky.prus/, [?k?p??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??i.prus/, [?t??i?p?us]

Noun

cyprus f (genitive cypr?); second declension

1. henna

Declension

Second-declension noun.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????????? (mu?t?r, “chosen”, adjective), the passive participle of ?????????? (i?t?ra, “to elect, pick, select; to choose, to make one's choice”). Sense 2 (“person acting as an agent; lawyer”) is derived through one or more Indian languages, particularly Bengali ?????? (mukhtar), Marathi ??????? (mukht?r), and Urdu ?????? (mukt?r), influenced through folk etymology by Sanskrit ?????? (mukti, “becoming or setting free, liberation”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?kt??/, [?m?x-]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?kt??/
• Hyphenation: mukh?tar

Noun

mukhtar (plural mukhtars)

1. In the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, many Arab countries, Cyprus, and other places: the head of a village, town, etc.; or a minor official of a province.
   1. (specifically) Alternative spelling of muhtar (“in Turkey, the elected head of a village, or of a neighbourhood in a town or city”)
2. (India, historical) A person acting as an agent; specifically, a lawyer. [early 19th – mid 20th c.]

Alternative forms

• mooktar, muhtar, muktar, muqtar

Related terms

• Mukhtar

Translations

References

Further reading

• mukhtar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• muhtar (title) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sandra Anderson [et al.], editors (1998) The Chambers Dictionary, London: Chambers, ?ISBN, page 1060.
• “mukhtar”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).