عفو اتمك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compounded from عفو (ʻafv, “forgiveness, pardon”) + اتمك (etmek, “to do, to make”).
Verb
[edit]- to forgive, pardon
- to excuse
- to give leave to go, to release or dismiss
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: affetmek
References
[edit]- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عفو”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, pages 1308–1309