یالكزلك
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From یالڭز (yalñız, “alone, lonely”) + ـلك (-lık, luk, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).
Noun
[edit]یالڭزلك • (yalñızlık)
- solitude, aloneness, the state of being alone, or by oneself
- loneliness, lonesomeness, depression resulting from being alone
- Synonym: تنهالق (tenhalık)
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: yalnızlık
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yalnızlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5182
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالكزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1344
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Solitudo”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1569
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یالكزلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 5550
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالكزلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2192