لینت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لِينَة (līna).

Noun

لینت • (linet) (definite accusative لینتی (lineti), plural لینتلر (linetler))

1. softness, the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded

   Synonym: یومشاقلق (yumşaklık)

2. diarrhea, a gastrointestinal disorder characterized by very soft and watery bowel movements

   Synonym: اسهال (ishâl)

Derived terms

• لینت كلمك (linet gelmek, “for the bowels, to be relaxed”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: linet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “linet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2970
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “lînet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 660
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لینت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1087
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lubricitas”, 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 974
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لینة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4220
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لینت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1649