Usually means: Non-Muslim, often derogatory Ottoman term.
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  1. giaour: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. giaour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. giaour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. giaour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Giaour, giaour: Wordnik
  6. giaour: Wiktionary
  7. giaour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. giaour: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Giaour, giaour: Dictionary.com
  10. giaour: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Giaour, The Giaour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Giaour: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. giaour: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Giaour: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. Giaour: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  16. Giaour: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. giaour: Free Dictionary
  18. giaour: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. giaour: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (giaour)

noun:  (religious slur) 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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