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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish حروفات (hurufat), with the Arabic plural ending added to the already plural form حروف (huruf), from Arabic حَرْف (ḥarf) (from which harf (“letter”)).
Noun
hurufat
- (obsolete, printing) type
- 1929 February 1, advertisement on page 6 of Son Saat:
Türkiye Cumhuriyetinini asrî terakkiyatına en büyük delil olan Lâtin hurufatile Türkçe yazmak ve okumak üzere Türkiye dahilinde her yerde gece dersaneleri açılmış olduğunu ve muhterem halkımızın da kemali aşkla tedrisata devam etmekte olduğunu ve ötedenberi rağbeti ammeye mazhar Radiyum lâmbalarımızın dahi mezkûr gece dersanelerinde diğer markalara tercihen istimal edildiğini görmekle müftehiriz.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “huruf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN