mankurt

From Russian манкурт (mankurt). Coined by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, in which people are turned into docile servants (mankurts) by exposing camel skin wrapped around their heads to the heat of the sun; the skins tighten as they dry, causing brain damage, such that the mankurts no longer recognize their name, family, or tribe—"a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being".

mankurt (plural mankurts)

1. (derogatory, uncommon) A person with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his ancestry, especially due to being affected by a dominant culture.

• trankum, Türkman, Turkmán, Turkman, unmarkt

Borrowed from Russian манку́рт (mankúrt).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaŋ.kurt/
• Rhymes: -aŋkurt
• Syllabification: man‧kurt

mankurt m pers

1. mankurt (individual with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity or awareness about his or her ancestry)

Borrowed from Russian манкурт (mankurt), coined by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years.

• IPA^(key): /manˈkuɾt/
• Hyphenation: man‧kurt

mankurt (definite accusative mankurtu, plural mankurtlar)

1. mankurt

• “mankurt”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “mankurt”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “mankurt”, in Nişanyan Sözlük