goor-BET[ɡuɾˈbet]
Pronunciation: Speaker: UsuYus · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commonslife lived far from home, in foreign parts — with the ache that comes with it
Closest in English: exile, emigration, expatriation. None of them covers it.
Gurbet reached Turkish through Ottoman from Arabic ghurba, the state of being a stranger. It carries half a century of labour migration in it, and a whole genre of folk song: the gurbet türküsü, sung by and for people working somewhere else.
A real game of this word, in 19 seconds.
Played by 54 people.
Three in five placed it in Turkish straight away; most of the others went for Persian.
The opposite cost the most points.
The most common guess was “homesick”: close, but not it.
Of those who bet on the translation, nobody got it exactly.
Harder than most words so far.
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