معرفت

From Arabic مَعْرِفَة (maʕrifa).

• IPA^(key): [mɑʔriˈfɛt], [mɑʔrɯˈfɛt]

معرفت • (maʼrifet, maʼrıfet) (plural معارف (maʼarif, maʼarıf))

1. connaissance, knowledge
2. science, branch of science, field, art
3. (in the plural) education, learning
4. (in the plural) the “knowing people”, i.e. influence, connections, blat
5. connaissance, the knowing how things get done, adroitness, a skill, artifice
6. a skill, a stratagem, a trick, an artifice
7. a method, means, way, intervention

• معرفتلی (maʼrifetli, maʼrıfetli)
• معرفتلك (maʼrifetlik, maʼrıfetlik)

• Turkish: marifet
• → Albanian: marifét
• → Aromanian: maraféte, maraféti, muraféte, muraféti
• → Bulgarian: марифе́т (marifét), мариве́т (marivét), мурафе́т (murafét)
• → Greek: μαραφέτι (maraféti)
• → Ladino: marafet
• → Macedonian: марифет (marifet)
• → Romanian: marifet, marafet
• → Russian: марафе́т (marafét)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: марѝфет

  Latin script: marìfet

• Findley, Carter Vaughn (1989) Ottoman Civial Officialdom. A Social History, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 138
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “معرفت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1193a

From Arabic مَعْرِفَة (maʕrifa).

معرفت • (ma'refat)

1. knowledge
2. learning