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

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