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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish شفا (şifâ), from Arabic شِفَاء (šifāʔ, “healing, recovery”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃiˈfaː/
- Hyphenation: şi‧fa
Noun
şifa (definite accusative şifayı, plural şifalar)
- recovery (from an illness)
Declension
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References
- “şifa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شفا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1128