müşfik

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مشفق (müşfik), from Arabic مُشْفِق (mušfiq), active participle of أَشْفَقَ (ʔašfaqa, “to pity, sypmathize, be concerned, worry”).

Adjective

müşfik

  1. (dated) tender, kind, compassionate
    Synonym: sevecen

References

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “مشفق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1174
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “müşfik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مشفق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1869
  • Wehr, Hans (1960), “شفق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
  • Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 837
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