English Explanatory Dictionary

medjidie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A coin of the Ottoman Empire, worth twenty piasters.
name
  1. A Turkish order of knighthood instituted in 1852, having five classes.

Word forms

medjidie medjidies

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مجیدیه (mecidiye), most likely through French medjidié, the adjectival form of the personal name Mecid, from Arabic مَجِيد (majīd, “glorious”)

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