tereffu

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ترفع, from Arabic تَرَفُّع (taraffuʕ), verbal noun of تَرَفَّعَ (taraffaʕa).

Noun

tereffu (definite accusative tereffuu, plural tereffular) (obsolete)

1. rising, becoming high
2. looking down on

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ترفع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 535
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN