هایلازلق

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• خایلازلق (haylazlık), خیلازلق (haylazlık)

Etymology

From هایلاز (haylaz, “idle, lazy”) +‎ ـلق (-lik, -luk, “-ness, -hood”).

Noun

هایلازلق • (haylazlık) (definite accusative هایلازلغی (haylazlığı), plural هایلازلقلر (haylazlıklar))

1. laziness, idleness, indolence, sloth, sluggishness, the property or quality of being lazy or idle

   Synonym: تنبللك (tembellik)

Descendants

• Turkish: haylazlık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haylazlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1914
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هایلازلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2156