یالكز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Common Turkic *yalŋuz (“alone, lonely”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰖𐰞𐰭𐰆𐰽 (yalıŋus), Azerbaijani yalnız, Bashkir яңғыҙ (yañğıź), Kazakh жалғыз (jalğyz), Kyrgyz жалгыз (jalgız), Turkmen ýalňyz, Uzbek yolgʻiz and Yakut соҕотох (soğotoq).

Adjective

یالڭز • (yalñız)

1. alone, lonely, lonesome, isolated from contact with other people

   Synonym: منفرد (munferid)

2. only, single, sole, lone, not accompanied by anything else

   Synonyms: تك (tek), فرد (ferd)

3. single-handed, unassisted, without help or assistance from others

Derived terms

• یالڭز اولمق (yalñız olmak, “to be alone”)
• یالڭز باشنه (yalñız başına, “all alone”)
• یالڭز كورك (yalñız kürek, “boat with a single pair of oars”)
• یالڭزجه (yalñızca, “somewhat solitary”)
• یالڭزلك (yalñızlık, “loneliness”)
• یالڭزلی (yalñızlı, “(of a family) with just one man”)

 

Noun

یالڭز • (yalñız) (plural یالڭزلر (yalñızlar))

1. loner, solitaire, one who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others

Descendants

• Turkish: yalnız

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yalnız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5182
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یالكز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 503a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالكز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1343
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Solus”, 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 1571
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یالكز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5550
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yalnız”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالكز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2191