ضعیفلق
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ضعیف (zaʼif, “weak, feeble; slim, slender”) + ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness”).
Noun
[edit]ضعیفلق • (zaʼiflık)
- feebleness, debility, infirmity, the quality or state of being feeble, infirm, or debilitated
- Synonym: درمانسزلق (dermansızlık)
- slimness, thinness, meagerness, the quality or property of being slim, thin, or meager
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: zayıflık
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zayıflık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5443
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ضعیفلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 785
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Debilitas”, 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[2], Vienna, column 324
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ضعیفلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 3045
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضعیفلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1212