افلاس

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِفْلاس (ʔiflās, “bankruptcy”).

Noun

افلاس • (iflâs)

1. (finance) bankruptcy, insolvency, the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due

   Synonym: مفلسلك (müflislik)

Descendants

• Turkish: iflas

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iflas”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2097
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “iflâs”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 491
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “افلاس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 121
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Versura”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1741
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “افلاس”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 324
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iflas”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “افلاس”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 159

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪf.lɑːs/

Noun

افلاس • (iflās) m

1. poverty