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Where does “ақьафан” come from?
ақьафан (Abkhaz) comes from Ottoman Turkish كفن, from Arabic كَفَن.
ақьафан
(Abkhaz): shroud
Definitions
shroud
Ancestry of “ақьафан”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Ottoman Turkish
كفن
shroud, winding cloth, any cloth in which a corpse is wrapped for burial
2
Arabic
كَفَن
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