اشفاق
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِشْفَاق (ʔišfāq).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iʃ.ˈfäk/
Noun
اشفاق • (işfak)
Descendants
- Turkish: işfak
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِشْفَاق (ʔišfāq), verbal noun of أَشْفَقَ (ʔašfaqa), sometimes also understood as أَشْفَاق (ʔašfāq), the plural of شَفَق (šafaq).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ʔiʃ.ˈfaːq/, /ʔaʃ.ˈfaːq/
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | išfāq, ašfāq |
Noun
اشفاق • (išfāq, ašfāq)
Derived terms
- بیاشفاق (bī-išfāq, “uncompassionate”)
Descendants
- → Urdu: اشفاق (ašfāq, išfāq)
Further reading
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “اشفاق”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 65a
Urdu
Etymology
From Classical Persian اشفاق (ašfāq, išfāq), from Arabic إِشْفَاق (ʔišfāq), verbal noun of أَشْفَقَ (ʔašfaqa), and أَشْفَاق (ʔašfāq), the plural of شَفَق (šafaq).
Noun
اشفاق • (ašfāq, išfāq) m