müsrif
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish مسرف (müsrif), from Arabic مُسْرِف (musrif), active participle of أَسْرَفَ (ʔasrafa).
Adjective
[edit]müsrif
- extravagant (profuse in expenditure)
References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “müsrif”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مسرف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1853
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 830