اسقف

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أُسْقُف (ʔusquf).

Noun

اسقف • (uskuf) (plural اساقف or اساقفه)

(Christianity) bishop, an official governing a diocese

Descendants

Turkish: üskuf

Further reading

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسقف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 111

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