لنفا

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Latin lympha (“clear water”).

Noun

لنفا • (lenfa)

lymph, a colorless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues

Derived terms

لنفاوی (lenfavî, “lymphatic”)

Descendants

Turkish: lenfa

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lenfa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2955
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لنفا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1081

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