لنفا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Latin lympha (“clear water”).

Noun

لنفا • (lenfa)

1. lymph, a colorless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues

Derived terms

• لنفاوی (lenfavî, “lymphatic”)

Descendants

• Turkish: lenfa

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lenfa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2955
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لنفا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1081