hafife

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish خفیفه (hafife), feminine and plural of Arabic خَفِيف (ḵafīf, “light, insignificant”).

Adjective

hafife

1. Only used in hafife almak (“to disregard, underestimate”)

References

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hafife”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 2, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1835b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خفیف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 547a