vasıf
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Ottoman Turkish وصف (vasf, “a quality”),[1] from Arabic وَصْف (waṣf, “description, quality, virtue”), verbal noun of وَصَفَ (waṣafa, “to describe, to depict”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vasıf (definite accusative vasfı, plural vasıflar or (dated) evsaf)
Declension
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “وصف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2139
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “evsaf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
[edit]- “vasıf”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “vasıf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5094