kılavuz
Pronunciation: /kɯɫɑˈvuz/
“kılavuz” is a Turkish word. Its 10 meanings in English:
noun
- a guide, who leads on the way, particularly someone who knows the terrain of a country and thus can guide an army
- a guide who shows the right way, e.g.; a mentor, spiritual guide, guru, sheikh
- guide book, manual
- 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
- role model, moral guide, beacon
- 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)
- pilot boat
- film leader; a length of film attached to the head or tail of a film to assist in threading a projector or telecine
- a tool used to cut threads/grooves inside a nut or a pipe
- 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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