Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish مسرف (müsrif), from Arabic مُسْرِف (musrif), active participle of أَسْرَفَ (ʔasrafa).

Adjective edit

müsrif

  1. extravagant (profuse in expenditure)

References edit

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müsrif”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مسرف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1853
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 830