صوفیلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صوفو (sofu, “pious”) +‎ لق (luk, forms abstract nouns from adjectives).

Noun

صوفیلق • (sofuluk)

1. (excessive) piety

Descendants

• Turkish: sofuluk

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صوفیلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 773
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوفیلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1193