افساد

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِفْسَاد (ʔifsād), verbal noun of أَفْسَدَ (ʔafsada).

Noun

افساد • (ifsad)

1. corruption, the act of impairing or spoiling integrity, virtue, or moral principle
2. instigation, the act of inciting to treachery, rebellion, or anarchy

Related terms

• مفسد (müfsid)

Descendants

• Turkish: ifsat

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ifsat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2098
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “افساد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 119
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “افساد”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 319
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ifsat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “افساد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 157