اورفه

Ottoman Turkish

Şanlıurfa Province

Alternative forms

• اورفا (urfa)

Etymology

From Classical Syriac ܐܘܪܗܝ (ʾurhāy).

Proper noun

اورفه • (Urfa)

1. Urfa (a city in southeastern Turkey)
2. Sanliurfa (a province in southeastern Turkey)

Descendants

• English: Urfa
• Turkish: Urfa

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “اورفه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 245
• Sezen, Tahir (2017), “Urfa”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 775