اسیرلك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- یسیرلك (yesirlik)
Etymology
[edit]From اسیر (esir, “captive, prisoner; slave”) + ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).
Noun
[edit]اسیرلك • (esirlik)
- captivity, the state wherein humans or other animals are confined to a particular space and prevented from moving freely
- slavery, enthrallment, an institution or practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اسیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 59
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “esirlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1485
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اسیرلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 39a
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اسیرلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 95
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Captivitas”, 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 150
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اسیرلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 227
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اسیرلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116