شفه

See also: شفة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَفَة (šafa, “lip”).

Noun

شفه • (şefe) (plural شفوات (şefevat))

1. lip, either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth

   Synonyms: طوداق (dudak), لب (leb)

Derived terms

• شفوی (şefevi, “labial”)

Descendants

• Turkish: şefe

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şefe”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4446
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شفه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 730
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Labium”, 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 896
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “شفه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2830
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شفه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1129