دارفور

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic دار فور (Dār Fūr, “land of the Fur”).

Proper noun

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دارفور • (darfur)

  1. Darfur: A region in western Sudan where the Fur live.

Descendants

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  • Turkish: Darfur

Further reading

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  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دارفور”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 881
  • Sezen, Tahir (2017) Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 200

Persian

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Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Proper noun

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دارفور • (dârfur)

  1. Darfur
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