ظرافت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ظَرَافَة (ẓarāfa).

Noun

ظرافت • (zarafet)

  1. grace, elegance

Derived terms

  • ظرافتسز (zarafetsiz, “inelegant, unclassy”)
  • ظرافتلو (zarafetli, “graceful, elegant”)

Descendants

  • Turkish: zarafet

Further reading

  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), “zarafet”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ظرافت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 830a
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