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Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish انصاف (insaf), from Arabic إِنْصَاف (ʔinṣāf, “justice”).
Pronunciation
Noun
אינסאפﬞ m (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling insaf)
- moderation, restraint
1927 January 21, La Vara, number 346, New York, page 10:[…] סיירטאס מוז׳׳יריס דיל ברונקס, לאס קואלאס איסטאן סאליידו דיל אינסאפ׳׳ פארה אפ׳׳ואירה, […]- syertas mujeres del Bronx, las kualas estan salyendo del insaf para afuera,
- certain women of the Bronx who are abandoning restraint
References
- Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “insaf”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
- Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “insáf”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 244