صفی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَفِيّ (ṣafiyy, “pure, clear”).

Adjective

صفی • (safi)

1. pure, clean, free of flaws or imperfections

   Synonyms: آری (arı), پاك (pak), تمیز (temiz), خالص (halis)

2. (of a person) true, sincere, genuine, real

Descendants

• Turkish: safi
• → Armenian: սաֆի (safi)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “safi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4008
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صفی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 763
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Purus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1410
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صفی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2970
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “safi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صفی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1180