معرفت

See also: معرفة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مَعْرِفَة (maʕrifa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɑʔriˈfɛt], [mɑʔrɯˈfɛt]

Noun

معرفت • (maʼrifet, maʼrıfet) (plural معارف (maʼarif, maʼarıf))

1. connaissance, knowledge
2. science, branch of science, field, art
3. (in the plural) education, learning
4. (in the plural) the “knowing people”, i.e. influence, connections, blat
5. connaissance, the knowing how things get done, adroitness, a skill, artifice
6. a skill, a stratagem, a trick, an artifice
7. a method, means, way, intervention

Derived terms

• معرفتلی (maʼrifetli, maʼrıfetli)
• معرفتلك (maʼrifetlik, maʼrıfetlik)

Descendants

• Turkish: marifet
• → Albanian: marifét
• → Aromanian: maraféte, maraféti, muraféte, muraféti
• → Bulgarian: марифе́т (marifét), мариве́т (marivét), мурафе́т (murafét)
• → Greek: μαραφέτι (maraféti)
• → Ladino: marafet
• → Macedonian: марифет (marifet)
• → Romanian: marifet, marafet
• → Russian: марафе́т (marafét)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: марѝфет

  Latin script: marìfet

References

• Findley, Carter Vaughn (1989) Ottoman Civial Officialdom. A Social History, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 138
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “معرفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1193a

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَعْرِفَة (maʕrifa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [maʔ.ɾi.ˈfat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.ɾɪ.fǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.ɾɪ.fǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɑː.ɾɪ.fǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mɔː.ɾi.fǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [mæʔ.ɹe.fǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [mäʔ.ɾi.fǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	ma'rifat
Dari reading?	ma'rifat
Iranian reading?	ma'refat
Tajik reading?	maʾrifat

Noun

Dari	معرفت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	маърифат

معرفت • (ma'refat)

1. knowledge
2. learning