انصاف
Malay
Adjective
انصاف (comparative لبيه انصاف, superlative ڤاليڠ انصاف)
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِنْصَاف (ʔinṣāf, “justice, equity, fairness”).
Noun
انصاف • (insâf) (definite accusative انصافی (insâfı), plural انصافلر (insâflar))
- justice, equity, fairness, impartiality, the state or characteristic of being just or fair
Derived terms
- انصاف ایتمك (insâf etmek, “to act with justice”)
- انصافسز (insâfsız, “unjust”)
- انصافلو (insâflı, “just”)
- انصافه كلمك (insâfa gelmek, “to make justice”)
Descendants
- Turkish: insaf
- → Armenian: ինսաֆ (insaf), նըսաֆ (nəsaf)
Further reading
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- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “انصاف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 126
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “insaf2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2187
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “insâf”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 526
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “انصاف”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 161
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Justitia”, 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[3], Vienna, column 890
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “انصاف”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 460
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “insaf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “انصاف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 222
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِنْصَاف (ʔinṣāf), from أَنْصَفَ (ʔanṣafa).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɪn.sɑːf/
Noun
اِنْصَاف • (insāf) m (Hindi spelling इनसाफ़)
Related terms
Ushojo
Etymology
From Urdu انصاف (insāf), Derived from Arabic إِنْصَاف (ʔinṣāf).
Noun
انصاف (ensāf)
Uzbek
Noun
انصاف (insof) (plural انصافلر)
- Afghan Uzbek spelling of insof
Further reading
- Aimaq, Dr. Fayzullah (2007), “انصاف”, in فرهنگ اوزبیکی به فارسی / دری [farhang-i ōzbēkī ba fārsī / darī, Uzbek-Persian/Dari dictionary] (overall work in Persian), page 172