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Noun
[edit]derebey (plural derebeys)
- (historical) a feudal lord in the Ottoman Empire
- 1989, T. A. Sinclair, Eastern Turkey: An Architectural & Archaeological Survey:
- A separate institution in Rize from the derebeylik was the great Tuzcuoglu family which eventually was to precipitate the crushing of the derebeys as semi-autonomous local powers.