یوكسكلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یوكسك (yüksek, “high, elevated”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

یوكسكلك • (yükseklik)

1. height, the distance from the base of something to the top

   Synonym: یوجه‌لك (yücelik)

2. altitude, the absolute height of a location, maesured from sea level

   Synonym: ارتفاع (irtifaʿ)

Descendants

• Turkish: yükseklik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yükseklik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5399
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یوكسكلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 514b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوكسكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 53
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Altitudo”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1569
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوكسكلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, columns 5629-5630
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوكسكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2217