صفیحه

See also: صفيحة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَفِيحَة (ṣafīḥa, “thin plate, sheet, lamina”).

Noun

صفیحه • (safiha)

1. surface, the overside of a flat object
2. single page, tablet, sheet, plate

   Synonym: لوحه (levha)

3. lamina, a thin layer, plate or scale of metal
4. slab, a large and flat piece of stone
5. plank, a long and broad piece of timber
6. doorleaf, an individual door panel

Descendants

• Turkish: safiha

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “safiha”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4008
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صفیحه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 763
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lamina”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 910
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صفیحه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2970
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صفیحه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1180