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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إفناء (“annihilation, destruction”).
Noun
افنا • (ifna) (definite accusative افنای (ifnayı), plural افنالر (ifnalar))
- destruction, annihilation, obliteration, the act of destroying or damaging beyond repair
- Synonyms: اضمحلال (izmihlâl), امحا (imha), تخریبات (tahribat)
- (mathematics) elimination, the act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ifna”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2097
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ifnâ'”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 491
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “افنا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 121
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Consumere”, 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 262
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “افنا”, 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–) “ifna”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “افنا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 160