Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic إِغْفَال (ʔiḡfāl), from أَغْفَلَ (ʔaḡfala, to be heedless to).

Noun edit

اغفال (iğfal)

  1. deception
  2. seduction; rape

References edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اغفال”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 116
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iğfal”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 516
  • iğfal”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu