tasfiye

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تصفیه (taṣfiye, “a clearing, clarifying a liquid, a purifying from alloy or admixture, a cleaning or polishing, a making the heart or mind free from evil thoughts or intentions”),^[1][2] from Arabic تَصْفِيَة (taṣfiya, “clarifying, purifying”), verbal noun of صَفَا (ṣafā, “to be pure, to be clear, to be pure of heart”).^[3]

• IPA^(key): /tas.fiˈje/
• Hyphenation: tas‧fi‧ye

tasfiye (definite accusative tasfiyeyi, plural tasfiyeler)

1. An act of clarifying, sorting out, refining.
2. (linguistics) Linguistic purism.
3. (business) Liquidation of a company's assets after its bankruptcy.
4. (figuratively) Mass layoffs due to various reasons.

• “tasfiye”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tasfiye”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4623