tuhaf

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish تحاف (tuhaf), from Arabic تُحَف (tuḥaf), plural of تُحْفة (tuḥfa, “something precious, treasure”), also used in a figurative sense, including of a precious, i.e. curious and unusual, story or anecdote.

Adjective

tuhaf

1. strange (not normal)

Related terms

• tuhafiye

References

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1902) “թօհաֆ”, in Tʻurkʻerēni azdecʻutʻiwnə hayerēni vray ew tʻurkʻerēnē pʻoxaṙeal baṙerə Pōlsi hay žoġovrdakan lezuin mēǰ hamematutʻeamb Vani, Ġarabaġi ew Nor-Naxiǰewani barbaṙnerun [The influence of Turkish on Armenian, and the Turkish borrowings in the vernacular Armenian of Constantinople in comparison with the dialects of Van, Karabakh and Nor Nakhichevan] (Ēminean azgagrakan žoġovacu; 3) (in Armenian), Moscow and Vagharshapat: Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, page 139
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tuhaf”, in Nişanyan Sözlük