اسقف

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أُسْقُف‎ (ʔusquf).

Noun

اسقف • (uskuf) (plural اساقف‎ or اساقفه‎)

(Christianity) bishop, an official governing a diocese

Further reading

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

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