كوشكلك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From گوشك (gevşek, “loose, slack, lax”) + ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).
Noun
[edit]گوشكلك • (gevşeklik)
- looseness, laxity, slackness, the state of being free from rigidity or restraint
- languor, lassitude, listlessness, the state of being indifferent or apathetic
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: gevşeklik
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gevşeklik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1695
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كوشكلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 402b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كوشكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1055
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Laxitas”, 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 927
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كوشكلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4081
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كوشكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2217