افنا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِفْنَاء (ʔifnāʔ, “annihilation, destruction”).

Noun

افنا • (ifna) (definite accusative افنایی (ifnayı), plural افنالر (ifnalar))

  1. destruction, annihilation, obliteration
    Synonyms: اضمحلال (izmihlâl), امحا (imha), تخریبات (tahribat)
  2. (mathematics) elimination

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Turkish: ifna

Further reading

click to expand
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.