مصفات

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِصْفَاة (miṣfāh, “colander”).

Noun

مصفات • (misfat) (plural مصافی (mesafi))

1. strainer, sile, colander, filter, any device through which a liquid is passed for purification

   Synonym: سوزگج (süzgec)

2. ethmoid, a light, spongy, cubical bone at the root of the nose, through which the olfactory nerves pass

Descendants

• Turkish: misfat

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “misfat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3238
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “misfât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 780
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مصفات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1179
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مصفات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4702
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مصفات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1879