sozekujan and ghina are correct,don't be so pedantic.

Submitted by Mozere (United Kingdom), Jun 4, 2013 at 21:39

Words change their original meanings over time or when loaned into another language. As a native Turkish speaker I support sozekujan when he says "gazi" means wounded war veterans,and in daily Turkish usage has no religious connotations.Even as a child if you injured yourself they used to say "gazi oldu" meaning he cut himself and bleeding,it did not mean the child was engaged in holy war as some pedants would have us believe.

Lengthy etymologic discussion in this case is irrelevant ,daily usage is the decisive factor.Another example to show that original meaning of a word is quite irrelevant is when a teenager describes something as "wicked",he does not mean it is evil,quite the opposite he means it is very nice indeed.

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