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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish عرفی (ürfi), from Arabic عُرْفِيّ (ʕurfiyy).
Pronunciation
Adjective
örfi
- (law) conventional, customary (in accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage)
- (law) extrajudicial, sovereign, arbitrary
Derived terms
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “örf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عرفی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1295
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN