رائف

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic رَائِف (rāʔif), active participle of رَأَفَ (raʔafa).

Adjective

رائف • (raif) (feminine رائفه (raife))

  1. benign, compassionate, clement

Further reading

  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “raif”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “رائف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 961
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