كیف

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• քէյֆ (keyf), քէֆ (kef) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “condition, state, mood”).

Noun

كیف • (keyf)

1. merriment, good spirits, a state of enjoyable exuberance, a cheerful mood
2. fun, enjoyment, amusement, entertainment, anything designed to give pleasure

   Synonyms: اگلنجه (eğlence), جنبش (cümbüş)

Derived terms

• كیف ویرمك (keyf virmek, “to intoxicate”)
• كیفسز (keyfsiz, “unwell”)
• كیفلو (keyfli, “merry, joyous”)
• كیفی قاچمق (keyfi kaçmak, “to be annoyed, vexed”)
• چاقر كیفی (çakır keyfi, “intoxication”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: keyif
• → Albanian: qejf
• → Armenian: քեֆ (kʻef), քեփ (kʻepʻ); քեյֆ (kʻeyf)
• → Georgian: ქეიფი (keipi) (or from Persian)
• → Greek: κέφι (kéfi)
• → Macedonian: ќеф (ḱef)
• → Romanian: chef
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ћѐиф

  Latin script: ćèif

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “keyif”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2586
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “keyf”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 615
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كیف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1067
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Hilaritas”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 697
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كیف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4118
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “keyif”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كیف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1613