tereffu

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish ترفع, from Arabic تَرَفُّع (taraffuʕ), verbal noun of تَرَفَّعَ (taraffaʕa).

Noun[edit]

tereffu (definite accusative tereffuu, plural tereffular) (obsolete)

  1. rising, becoming high
  2. looking down on

References[edit]

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترفع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 535
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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