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Huge virile-sounding Turk
Answer for the clue "Huge virile-sounding Turk ", 7 letters:
osmanli
Word definitions for osmanli in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Osmanli \Os"man*li\, n.; pl. Osmanlis . [So called from Osman. See Ottoman .] A Turkish official; one of the dominant tribe of Turks; loosely, any Turk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"an Ottoman Turk," 1813, from Turkish Osmanli "of or pertaining to Osman," founder of the Ottoman dynasty (he reigned 1259-1326); his name is the Turkish pronunciation of Arabic Uthman . This is the native word where English generally uses Ottoman .
Usage examples of osmanli.
Andrews to a moderately gloating roundup of problems to be raised when representatives of the Kaiser and the Sublime Porte finally held separate meetings with a US arbitrator, to discuss renewing the Osmanli Accord, the treaty that defined spheres of economic influence in North Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans.
Captain Hasan-Bey, an Osmanli of Cavala who, having been forty-eight years in the service, sighed for his pension.
Magyar, Osmanli, and other dialects of the Altai family, as, for instance, with the Finnic on the old continent, as well as the Algonquin-Lenape language and some others in America.
Actually, my man was stationed in Anatolia when the Osmanlis overran it, and did not get back to Constantinople until they had taken it too and renamed it Istanbul.