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Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Arabic مَعَارِف (maʕārif).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ma‧ar‧if
Noun
maarif (definite accusative maarifi, plural maariflər)
- enlightenment (spread of knowledge and elimination or reducing of backwardness)
- (poetic) education
- Synonym: təhsil
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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish معارف, from Arabic مَعَارِف (maʕārif), plural of مَعْرِفَة (maʕrifa, “knowledge, learning”).
Noun
maarif (definite accusative maarifi, plural maarifler)
- (archaic) education
- Maarif Vekâleti ― Minstry of Education
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “maarif”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معارف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1896
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN