مفصل

Noun of place from the root ف ص ل (f-ṣ-l), with the noun itself forming the denominal root م ف ص ل (m-f-ṣ-l), whence تَمَفْصَلَ (tamafṣala, “to connect as joints; to form a joint”), among others, derives.

مَفْصِل • (mafṣil) m (plural مَفَاصِل (mafāṣil))

1. knuckle

   Synonym: بُرْجُمَة (burjuma)

2. skeletal joint

   Synonym: مَوْصِل (mawṣil)

Derived from the passive participle of فَصَّلَ (faṣṣala, “to detail”).

• IPA^(key): /mu.fasˤ.sˤal/

مُفَصَّل • (mufaṣṣal) (feminine مُفَصَّلَة (mufaṣṣala), masculine plural مُفَصَّلُونَ (mufaṣṣalūna), feminine plural مُفَصَّلَات (mufaṣṣalāt))

1. detailed

• → Azerbaijani: müfəssəl
• → Persian: مفصل (mofassal)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مفصل (mufassal)
  • > Turkish: mufassal (inherited)
• → Uyghur: مۇپەسسەل (mupessel)
• → Uzbek: mufassal

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “مفصل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic مَفْصِل (mafṣil, “knuckle; joint”).

مفصل • (mafsal) (plural مفاصل (mafasal))

1. (anatomy) joint, articulation, any part of the body where two bones join

• مفصلی (mafsali, “articular”)

• Turkish: mafsal

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mafsal”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3005
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mafsal”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 670
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مفصل”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1203
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Articulus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 87
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مفصل”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4811
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mafsal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مفصل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1932

Borrowed from Arabic مُفَصَّل (mufaṣṣal).

مفصل • (mofassal)

1. detailed

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “مفصل”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From Arabic مَفْصِل (mafṣil).

• IPA^(key): /maf.sˤal/,

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مفصل • (mafṣal) m (plural مفاصل (mafāṣel))

1. joint (anatomy)
2. hinge (of a door etc.)