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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic وَاصِف (wāṣif), active participle of وَصَفَ (waṣafa).
Noun
واصف • (vasıf)
- description
- eulogy; praise
Proper noun
واصف • (Vasıf)
- a male given name from Arabic
References
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “vâsıf”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1368
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “واصف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1300
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “واصف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2123
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN