حریف

See also: خريف, حریق, حريف, and حريق

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَرِيف (ḥarīf). [1]

Noun

حریف • (härīf)

  1. comrade, colleague
  2. (late, derogatory) man

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: hərif
  • Gagauz: erif
  • Ottoman Turkish: حریف (herif, harif)

References

  1. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “herif”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish حریف (härīf), from Arabic حَرِيف (ḥarīf, “patron, client”).

Noun

حریف • (herif or harif) (definite accusative حریفی (herifi, harifi), plural حرفا (hurafa))

  1. colleague, coworker, workmate, a fellow member or associate of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization
    Synonym: مسلكداش (meslekdaş)
  2. comrade, mate, fellow, companion, associate, someone with whom one spends time or accompanies, a friend or partner
    Synonyms: آیاقداش (ayakdaş), رفیق (refik), قولداش (koldaş), همراه (hemrah), یولداش (yoldaş)
  3. (derogatory) guy, bloke, bud, fella, dude, chap, bugger, a derogatory term to address a man, especially an ordinary one
Derived terms
  • حریفجك (herifcik, “dear little fellow”)
Descendants

Further reading

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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic حِرِّيف (ḥirrīf, “pungent, acrid”), perhaps from Aramaic חריף (ḥarrīp̄).

Adjective

حریف • (hirrif or harif)

  1. acrid, pungent, acrimonious, sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste
    Synonym: كسكین (keskin)
Derived terms
  • حریفیت (hirrifiyet, “acridity, pungency”)

Further reading

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حریف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[7] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 505
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mordax”, 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[8], Vienna, column 1081
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حریف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[9], Vienna, column 1752
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حریف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 781

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَرِيف (ḥarīf).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? harīf
Dari reading? harīf
Iranian reading? harif
Tajik reading? harif

Noun

Dari حریف
Iranian Persian
Tajik ҳариф

حریف • (harif)

  1. rival, opponent; match
    Synonyms: مخالف (moxâlef), رقیب (raqib), دشمن (došman)
    حریف من نیست. ― harif-e man nist. ― He's not my match; he cannot compare to me.
  2. (archaic) partner, friend, comrade
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 11:
      نی حریف هر که از یاری برید
      پرده‌‌هایش پرده‌‌های ما درید
      nay harīf-i har ki az yārē barīd
      parda-hā-yaš parda-hā-yi mā darīd
      The reed is the comrade of every one who has been parted from a friend: its strains pierced our hearts.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

  • حریفی (harifi, “rivalry; belligerent”)
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