دارفور

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دار فور (Dār Fūr, “land of the Fur”).

Proper noun

دارفور • (darfur)

  1. Darfur: a region in western Sudan where the Fur live.

Descendants

  • Turkish: Darfur

Further reading

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دارفور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 881
  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 200

Persian

Proper noun

دارفور • (dârfur)

  1. Darfur
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