Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic مُتَصَرِّف (mutaṣarrif), active participle of تَصَرَّفَ (taṣarrafa).

Noun edit

متصرف (mutasarrıf)

  1. the governor of a sanjak

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: mutasarrıf
  • Albanian: mytesarif
  • English: mutasarrif

References edit

  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “متصرف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1704
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN