اویقوسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اویقو (uyku, “sleep”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, -suz, “-less”).

Adjective

اویقوسز • (uykusuz)

1. wakeful, sleepless, insomniac, characterized by an absence of sleep

   Synonym: سهران (sehran)

Derived terms

• اویقوسزلق (uykusuzluk, “insomnia”)

Descendants

• Turkish: uykusuz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “uykusuz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5012
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “اویقوسز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 88b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اویقوسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 206
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insomnis”, 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 829
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “اویقوسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 557
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اویقوسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 274