(nēfa) and cognate with Central Kurdish نێفەک (nêfek). IPA(key): /naj.faq/ نَيْفَق • (nayfaq) m (plural نَيَافِق (nayāfiq)) (obsolete) the top middle area...
See also: نيفق From ییقمق (yıkmak, “to knock down”). ییقق • (yıkık) breach demolished ruined Turkish: yıkık Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ییقق”, in A Turkish...
From Middle Persian, whence also Arabic نَيْفَق (nayfaq), related to نافه (nâfa, “musk bag, gland of the musk deer”), ناف (nâf, “navel”). The meaning...