شاهدلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شاهد (şâhid, “witness”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

شاهدلك • (şâhidlik) (definite accusative شاهدلكی (şâhidliği), plural شاهدلكلر (şâhidlikler))

1. testimony, witness, the attestation of a first-hand fact, event, or experience

   Synonyms: شهادت (şehâdet), طانقلق (tanıklık)

Derived terms

• قلب شاهدلكی (kalb şâhidliği, “witness of one's heart”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: şahitlik

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “شاهد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 135
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şahitlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4415
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاهدلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 717
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاهدلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1112