كارسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كار (kâr, “work, occupation; profit, gain”) +‎ ـسز (-sız, -suz, “-less”).

Adjective

كارسز • (kârsız)

1. workless, unemployed, inactive, idle, unbusied, not engaged in any work, occupation, or employment

   Synonyms: آیلاق (aylak), ایشسز (işsiz), ایشی یوق (işi yok), بی كار (bi kâr)

2. profitless, fruitless, gainless, unremunerative, unprofitable, not bringing profit, gain, or remuneration

Descendants

• Turkish: kârsız

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “كار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 604
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kârsız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2445
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كارسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1004
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Otiosus”, 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 1228
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كارسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3842
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كارسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1514