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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مشفق (müşfik), from Arabic مُشْفِق (mušfiq), active participle of أَشْفَقَ (ʔašfaqa, “to pity, sypmathize, be concerned, worry”).
Adjective
müşfik
- tender, kind, compassionate
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مشفق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1174
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müşfik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مشفق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1869
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “شفق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 837