muhafaza

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish محافظه (muhafaza), from Arabic مُحَافَظَة (muḥāfaẓa), verbal noun of حَافَظَ (ḥāfaẓa, “to preserve, protect”).

muhafaza (definite accusative muhafazayı, plural muhafazalar)

1. defending, protecting
2. defense, protection
3. conservation, preservation

• muhafazakâr
• muhafazalı
• muhafazasız

• muhafız

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “muhafaza”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “محافظه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1755
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN