nafaka

From Arabic نَفَقَ (nafaqa).

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nafaka (n class, plural nafaka)

1. grain, cereal

• (Cereals) nafaka; shayiri (“barley”), mahindi (“maize”), ulezi (“millet”), oti (“oats”), mchele (“husked rice”) / mpunga (“unhusked rice”) / wali (“cooked rice”), ngano nyekundu (“rye”), mtama (“sorghum”), ngano (“wheat”) ^{(Category: sw:Grains) [edit]}

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish نفقه (nafaka),[1][2][3] from Arabic نَفَقَة (nafaqa).[4]

• IPA^(key): /na.faˈka/
• Hyphenation: na‧fa‧ka

nafaka (definite accusative nafakayı, plural nafakalar)

1. All that is needed for one to get by; subsistence.
2. (law) alimony (court-mandated allowance made to dependant(s))

• “nafaka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nafaka”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3474