انف

See also: أنف and انق

Arabic

Etymology 1

Verb

اُنْفُ • (unfu) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of نَفَا (nafā)

Etymology 2

Verb

اِنْفِ • (infi) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of نَفَى (nafā)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَنْف (ʔanf, “nose”).

Noun

انف • (enf) (plural آناف or انوف)

1. nose, a protuberance on the face housing the nostrils

   Synonyms: بورون (burun), بینی (bini)

2. tip, the extreme end of something, especially when pointed

   Synonym: بورون (burun)

3. headland, cape, promontory, any projecting piece of land

   Synonym: بورون (burun)

Derived terms

• انفیه (enfiye, “snuff”)

Descendants

• Turkish: enf

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “enf”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1447
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “انف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 163
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nasus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1117
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “انف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 463
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “انف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 224