hanafize

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verb

To convert to Hanafism

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Meanings

verbhanafize (third-person singular simple present hanafizes, present participle hanafizing, simple past and past participle hanafized)

present singular third person hanafizes · participle present hanafizing · participle past hanafized · past hanafized

  1. rareTo convert to Hanafism

    2005, J Desautels-Stein - Fletcher F, Rites and Rights in Afghanistan: The Hazara and the 2004 Constitution, page 157, link The 1964 Constitution and the Afghan civil and criminal codes were "Hanafized".

    2 more examples

    Ottoman officials in the Hamidian and Young Turk eras attempted to "hanafize" ...

    2004, Leif Stenberg, Globalization and the Muslim World, page 20

    The attempt to “hanafize” the Mongol is also attested by Shabānkarāʾī ...

    2014, Denise Aigle, The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality, page 36

Origin

From Hanafi + -ize.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Hafezian
Cite this entry
APA

hanafize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hanafize

MLA

“hanafize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hanafize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hanafize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hanafize.

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