English-French translations for giaour

• giaour
  On avait écrit à la bombe, sur les murs, des choses telles que: "Les Bulgares, faites-en du savon" et "Mort aux giaours". They had sprayed on their walls things like: 'Turn Bulgarians into soap' and 'Death to the giaours'.
  Dans l'esprit des Turcs, un giaour est considéré comme un sous-homme, ce qui en fait l'insulte raciste la plus dégradante en turc. In the Turkish mind a giaour is considered to be subhuman, which makes it the most offensive racist insult in the Turkish language.
  "Giaour" est une expression turque péjorative utilisée à l'époque de l'Empire ottoman pour désigner les sujets non musulmans et ceux d'origine non turque. 'Giaour' is a derogatory Turkish expression used during the time of the Ottoman Empire to refer to non-Muslim subjects and those of non-Turkish origin.

Definition of giaour

• A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians

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