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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِفْلاس (ʔiflās, “bankruptcy”).
Noun
افلاس • (iflâs)
- (finance) bankruptcy, insolvency, the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due
- Synonym: مفلسلك (müflislik)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iflas”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2097
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “iflâs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 491
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “افلاس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 121
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Versura”, 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, Vienna, column 1741
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “افلاس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 324
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iflas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “افلاس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 159
Urdu
Pronunciation
Noun
افلاس • (iflās) m
- poverty