لطیفه

See also: لطيفة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَطِيفَة (laṭīfa, “witticism; joke, jest”), feminine singular form of لَطِيف (laṭīf, “pleasant, agreeable”).

Noun

لطیفه • (latife) (definite accusative لطیفه‌یی (latifeyi), plural لطیفه‌لر (latifeler))

1. joke, prank, jest, anything said or done in amusement, not in seriousness

   Synonyms: اویون (oyun), شقا (şaka)

2. witticism, quip, jibe, jeer, taunt, any scornful or mocking remark or reflection

Derived terms

• لطیفه ایتمك (latife etmek, “to joke, jest”)
• لطیفه برطرف (latife bertaraf, “joking aside”)
• لطیفه گو (latife gu, “habitual sayer of quits”)
• لطیفه‌جی (latifeci, “joker, jester”)
• لطیفه‌سز (latifesiz, “without joking”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: latife

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “latife”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2943
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “لطیفه”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 411a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لطیفه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1078
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Facetia”, 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 540
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لطیفه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4176
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “latife”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لطیفه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1633