خفیف
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See also: خفيف
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic خَفِيف (ḵafīf, “light, nimble, agile”).
Adjective
[edit]خفیف • (hafif)
- light, having little weight, not heavy
- foolish, silly, flighty, light-headed
- quick, sharp, clever, ingenious
- (of a consonant) not reduplicated
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: hafif
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hafif1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1835
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خفیف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 547
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Levis”, 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 938
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “خفیف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 1921
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “hafif”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خفیف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 857