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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic صَفِيحَة (ṣafīḥa, “thin plate, sheet, lamina”).
Noun
صفیحه • (safiha)
- surface, the overside of a flat object
- single page, tablet, sheet, plate
- Synonym: لوحه (levha)
- lamina, a thin layer, plate or scale of metal
- slab, a large and flat piece of stone
- plank, a long and broad piece of timber
- doorleaf, an individual door panel
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “safiha”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4008
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صفیحه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 763
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lamina”, 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 910
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صفیحه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2970
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صفیحه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1180