نفقه

See also: نفقة

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَفَقَة (nafaqa).

Noun

نفقه • (nafaka) (plural نفقات (nafakat))

1. expence made for sustenance, livelihood
2. (law) allowance given as support, maintenance, especially for a wife or widow

Related terms

• نفق (nafak)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: nafaka
• → Albanian: nafakë
• → Aromanian: nãfãcã
• → Armenian: նաֆախա (nafaxa), նաֆաքա (nafakʻa)
• → Balkan Romani: nafaka — Sofia Erli
• → Greek: ναφακάς (nafakás)
• → Macedonian: нафака (nafaka)
• → Romanian: nafaca
• → Serbo-Croatian: nafàka／нафа̀ка

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nafaka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3474b
• Seydi, Ali (1912) “نَفَقَه”, in رسملی قاموس عثمانی [resimli kamus-ı ʼosmani]‎^[1] (in Ottoman Turkish), page 1061b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نفقه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1282b
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نفقه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2094b