بیاغیلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From بیاغی (bayağı, “simple, plain; ordinary; rude, uncouth”) +‎ ـلق (-lik, -luk, “-ness, -hood”).

Noun

بیاغیلق • (bayağılık) (definite accusative بیاغیلغی (bayağılığı), plural بیاغیلقلر (bayağılıklar))

1. (of people) uncouthness, coarseness, roughness, unrefinedness, the quality or state of being uncouth, coarse, or unrefined

Descendants

• Turkish: bayağılık

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “بیاغی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 355
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “bayağılık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 508
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بیاغیلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 299