تحفلق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • تحافلق (tuhaflık)

Etymology

From تحف (tuhaf) +‎ ـلق (-lık), the first part from Arabic تُحْفَة (tuḥfa).

Noun

تحفلق • (tuhaflık)

  1. acting odd or funny
    • 1923, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba‎[1], page 31:
      ایچریده درویش چناری تحفلقلر ایدییور، هركس كولوشیوردی.
      İçeride derviş Çinari tuhaflıklar ediyor, herkes gülüşüyordu.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

  • Turkish: tuhaflık

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “tuhaflık”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تحفلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 350
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