Mameluke

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A fool.

   “Kabikov: “Hey, I’m setting a mood.” Mad Sal: “I’ll mood you, you mameluke.”

2. isim Alternative letter-case form of Mameluke.
3. isim A member of various military regimes in the Middle East established and run by freed white slave soldiers, mainly from the Eurasian steppe or the Caucasus; in particular, those who formed a ruling caste in Egypt from 1250 until 1812 and in Syria from 1260 until 1516.

   “The Mammalukes boaſt, that they have the nimbleſt and readieſt horſes of any men at armes in the vvorld.”

4. isim One who supports someone or something blindly or slavishly; specifically, one who supports the Roman Catholic Church in this manner.

   “But, so long as the Bishop of Rome remains Pope, and has an army of Mamelukes all over the world, we shall do very little by fulminating against mere doctrinal errors.”

5. isim A slave (especially one who is a white European) in a Middle Eastern Muslim country.

   “But this madde Amalecke, / Lyke to a Mamelek, / He regardeth lordes / No more than potshordes; […]”