متصرف

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic مُتَصَرِّف (mutaṣarrif), active participle of تَصَرَّفَ (taṣarrafa).

Noun

متصرف • (mutasarrıf)

the governor of a sanjak

Descendants

Turkish: mutasarrıf
→ Albanian: mytesarif
→ English: mutasarrif

References

Redhouse, James W. (1890) “متصرف”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1704
Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

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