افنا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إفناء (“annihilation, destruction”).

Noun

افنا • (ifna) (definite accusative افنای (ifnayı), plural افنالر (ifnalar))

1. destruction, annihilation, obliteration, the act of destroying or damaging beyond repair

   Synonyms: اضمحلال (izmihlâl), امحا (imha), تخریبات (tahribat)

2. (mathematics) elimination, the act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation

Derived terms

• افنا ایتمك (ifna etmek, “to destroy, annihilate”)

Descendants

• Turkish: ifna

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ifna”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2097
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “ifnâ'”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 491
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “افنا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 121
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Consumere”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 262
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “افنا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 324
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ifna”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “افنا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 160