اشفاق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِشْفَاق (ʔišfāq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iʃ.ˈfäk/

Noun

اشفاق • (işfak)

1. compassion, favours, tenderness

Descendants

• Turkish: işfak

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِشْفَاق (ʔišfāq), verbal noun of أَشْفَقَ (ʔašfaqa), sometimes also understood as أَشْفَاق (ʔašfāq), the plural of شَفَق (šafaq).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔiʃ.fɑːq], [ʔaʃ.fɑːq]

Readings
Classical reading?	išfāq, ašfāq

Noun

اشفاق • (išfāq, ašfāq)

1. compassion, favours, tenderness

Derived terms

• بی‌اشفاق (bī-išfāq, “uncompassionate”)

Descendants

• → Urdu: اشفاق (ašfāq, išfāq)

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “اشفاق”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul, page 65a

Urdu

Etymology

From Classical Persian اشفاق (ašfāq, išfāq), from Arabic إِشْفَاق (ʔišfāq), verbal noun of أَشْفَقَ (ʔašfaqa), and أَشْفَاق (ʔašfāq), the plural of شَفَق (šafaq)..

Noun

اشفاق • (ašfāq, išfāq) m

1. compassion, favours, tenderness