hafife
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish خفیفه (hafife), feminine and plural of Arabic خَفِيف (ḵafīf, “light, insignificant”).
Adjective edit
hafife
- Only used in hafife almak (“to disregard, underestimate”)
References edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hafife”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1835b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خفیف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 547a