אינסאפﬞ

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Ladino[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish انصاف (insaf), from Arabic إِنْصَاف (ʔinṣāf, justice).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

אינסאפﬞ m (Hebrew spelling, Latin spelling insaf)

  1. moderation, restraint
    • 1927 January 21, La Vara[1], number 346, New York, page 10:
      [] סיירטאס מוז׳׳יריס דיל ברונקס, לאס קואלאס איסטאן סאליידו דיל אינסאפ׳׳ פארה אפ׳׳ואירה, []
      [] syertas mujeres del Bronx, las kualas estan salyendo del insaf para afuera, []
      [] certain women of the Bronx who are abandoning restraint []

References[edit]

  • Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “insaf”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “insáf”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 244