معرفت

See also: معرفة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مَعْرِفَة (maʕrifa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mɑʔriˈfɛt], [mɑʔrɯˈfɛt]

Noun

معرفت • (maʼrifet, maʼrıfet) (plural معارف (maʼarif, maʼarıf))

  1. connaissance, knowledge
  2. science, branch of science, field, art
  3. (in the plural) education, learning
  4. (in the plural) the “knowing people”, i.e. influence, connections, blat
  5. connaissance, the knowing how things get done, adroitness, a skill, artifice
  6. a skill, a stratagem, a trick, an artifice
  7. 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 script: марѝфет
    Latin script: marìfet

References

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَعْرِفَة (maʕrifa).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? ma'rifat
Dari reading? ma'rifat
Iranian reading? ma'refat
Tajik reading? ma'rifat

Noun

معرفت • (ma'rifat / ma'refat) (Tajik spelling маърифат)

  1. knowledge, learning
    Synonym: دانش (dāniš / dâneš)
  2. science
    Synonym: علم (ilm / elm)
  3. acquaintance (familiarity with a person)
  4. education, instruction

Derived terms

  • معرفت داشتن (ma'rifat dāštan / ma'refat dâštan)
Persian terms derived from the Arabic root ع ر ف (0 c, 8 e)

Further reading

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