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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مخوف, from Arabic مَخُوف (maḵūf), passive participle of خَافَ (ḵāfa).
Adjective
mahuf (obsolete)
- frightful, terrible
1934 July 30, “Deniz Kurdu”, in İzmir Postası, Izmir, page 2:Bu mücadele pek müthişti. Karadeniz için hakiki bir felâket ve musibet olan batı rüzgârı esiyor, dalgaları birbirine katarak zifiri karanlık içinde denizi ölüm kadar mahuf gösteriyordu.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1941 October 5, “M. Hitlerin mühim nutku”, in Tasviri Efkâr, Istanbul:Esasen, dünyanın içinde bulunduğu mahuf buhranın muhtemel âkıbetleri hakkında bir fikir edinmek için M. Hitlerin ara sıra söylediği nutukları rehber ittihaz etmekten başka çare yoktur.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مخوف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1138
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 723