واصف

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic وَاصِف (wāṣif), active participle of وَصَفَ (waṣafa).

Noun

واصف • (vasıf)

1. description
2. eulogy; praise

Proper noun

واصف • (Vasıf)

1. a male given name from Arabic

References

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “vâsıf”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1368
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “واصف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1300
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “واصف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2123
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN