See also: عرفي and عرقي

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic عُرْفِيّ (ʕurfiyy).

Adjective edit

عرفی (ürfi) (feminine عرفیه)

  1. (law) conventional, customary (in accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage)
  2. (law) extrajudicial, sovereign, arbitrary

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: örfi

References edit

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “örfi”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عرفی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 844a
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “örf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عرفی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1295