انف

انف

See also: أنف‎ and انق‎

Arabic

Verb

اُنْفُ • (unfu) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of نَفَا‎ (nafā)

Verb

اِنْفِ • (infi) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of نَفَى‎ (nafā)

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَنْف‎ (ʾanf, “nose”).

Noun

انف • (enf) (plural آناف‎ or انوف‎)

1. nose, a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils

   Synonyms: بورون‎ (burun), بینی‎ (bini)

2. tip, the extreme end of something, especially when pointed

   Synonym: بورون‎ (burun)

3. headland, cape, promontory, any projecting piece of land

   Synonym: بورون‎ (burun)

Derived terms

• انفیه‎ (enfiye, “snuff”)

Descendants

• Turkish: enf

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “enf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1447
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “انف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 163
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Nasus”, 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 1117
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “انف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 463
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “انف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 224