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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِفْسَاد (ʔifsād), verbal noun of أَفْسَدَ (ʔafsada).
Noun
افساد • (ifsad)
- corruption, the act of impairing or spoiling integrity, virtue, or moral principle
- instigation, the act of inciting to treachery, rebellion, or anarchy
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ifsat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2098
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “افساد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 119
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “افساد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 319
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ifsat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “افساد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 157