اكشیلك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From اكشی (ekşi, “acid, sour, tart”) + ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).
Noun
[edit]اكشیلك • (ekşilik)
- acidity, sourness, tartness, sharpness of taste, the condition or quality of being acid, sour, or tart
- Synonym: حامضیت (hamıziyet)
Further reading
[edit]- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اكشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 93
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ekşilik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1485
- Moran, Ahmet Vahid (1924) “acidity”, in A condensed dictionary, English–Turkish, Constantinople: Fratelli Haim, page 4a
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اكشیلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 174