معرفت
See also: معرفة
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic مَعْرِفَة (maʿrifa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɑʔriˈfɛt], [mɑʔrɯˈfɛt]
Noun
معرفت • (maʼrifet, maʼrıfet) (plural معارف (maʼarif, maʼarıf))
- connaissance, knowledge
- science, branch of science, field, art
- (in the plural) education, learning
- (in the plural) the “knowing people”, i.e. influence, connections, blat
- connaissance, the knowing how things get done, adroitness, a skill, artifice
- a skill, a stratagem, a trick, an artifice
- a method, means, way, intervention
Derived terms
- معرفتلی (maʼrifetli, maʼrıfetli)
- معرفتلك (maʼrifetlik, maʼrıfetlik)
Descendants
- Turkish: marifet
- → Albanian: marifét
- → Aromanian: maraféte, maraféti, muraféte, muraféti
- → Bulgarian: марифе́т (marifét), мариве́т (marivét), мурафе́т (murafét)
- → Greek: μαραφέτι (maraféti)
- → Ladino: marafet
- → Macedonian: марифет (marifet)
- → Romanian: marifet, marafet
- → Russian: марафе́т (marafét)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: марѝфет
- Latin: marìfet
References
- Findley, Carter Vaughn (1989) Ottoman Civial Officialdom. A Social History, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 138
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “معرفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1193a
Persian
| Dari | معرفت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | маърифат (maʾrifat) |
Etymology
From Arabic مَعْرِفَة (maʿrifa).
Noun
معرفت • (ma'refat)
- knowledge
- learning