estağfurullah

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish استغفرالله (estağfurullah), from Arabic أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّٰه (ʔastaḡfiru llāh).

Interjection

estağfurullah

  1. astaghfirullah
  2. A polite response to thanks or praise; don't mention it

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “استغفرالله”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 100b
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