كسكینلك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From كسكین (keskin, “sharp, keen”) + ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness”).
Noun
[edit]كسكینلك • (keskinlik)
- sharpness, keenness, the cutting ability of an edge
- pungency, acridity, the state of being pungent or acrid
- incisiveness, incisivity, the state of being incisive
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: keskinlik
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “keskinlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2572
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كسكینلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 390b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كسكینلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1026
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Acies”, 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 14
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كسكینلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3953
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كسكینلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1550