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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
From Arabic سَيْف (sayf, “sword”).
Noun
سیف • (seyf) (plural سیوف or اسیاف)
- sword, a long-bladed weapon
- Synonyms: شمشیر (şimşir), قلج (kılıc)
- decapitation by a sword
- yeoman's fief, as furnishing a sword to the army
Etymology 2
From Arabic سِيف (sīf).
Noun
سیف • (sîf) (plural اسیاف)
- seashore, beach; riverbank
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 708
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gladius”, 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 652
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “سیف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 2733–2734
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1102
Talysh
Etymology
Akin to Persian سیب (sib).
Noun
سیف (sif)
- apple