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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish اسف (esef), from Arabic أَسَف (ʔasaf), verbal noun of أَسِفَ (ʔasifa).
Noun
esef (definite accusative esefi, plural esefler)
- regret
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “esef”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 89a
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN