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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic صَفِيّ (ṣafiyy, “pure, clear”).
Adjective
صفی • (safi)
- pure, clean, free of flaws or imperfections
- Synonyms: آری (arı), پاك (pak), تمیز (temiz), خالص (halis)
- (of a person) true, sincere, genuine, real
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “safi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4008
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صفی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 763
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Purus”, 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 1410
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صفی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2970
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “safi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صفی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1180