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kılavuz

Pronunciation: /kɯɫɑˈvuz/

“kılavuz” is a Turkish word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a guide, who leads on the way, particularly someone who knows the terrain of a country and thus can guide an army
  2. a guide who shows the right way, e.g.; a mentor, spiritual guide, guru, sheikh
  3. guide book, manual
  4. someone who procures an affair as an intermediate, who makes enquiries etc., such as a matchmaker to report upon a proposed bride on the part of a suitor
  5. role model, moral guide, beacon
  6. pilot (a person who knows well the depths and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast)
  7. pilot boat
  8. film leader; a length of film attached to the head or tail of a film to assist in threading a projector or telecine
  9. a tool used to cut threads/grooves inside a nut or a pipe
  10. wire guide; a hard object to which a flexible thing (like a wire or cable) is attached when being passed through a narrow and long space

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قلاغوز (kılağuz), from Old Anatolian Turkish قلاغوز (qulağuz, qulavuz), from an extinct Central Asiatic substrate.

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