دوزلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دوز (düz, “smooth, even, flat”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

دوزلك • (düzlük)

1. smoothness, the condition of being smooth
2. levelness, the property of being level

   Synonym: استوا (istiva)

3. flatness, the condition of being flat
4. evenness, the quality of being even
5. plainness, the condition of being plain

   Synonym: ساده‌لك (sadelik)

Descendants

• Turkish: düzlük

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “düzlük”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1346
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دوزلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 233a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دوزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 586
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Planities”, 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 1305
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دوزلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2167
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دوزلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 921