cılız
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish جیلیز (cılız, ciliz), from Armenian ճլեզ (člez).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cılız
- skinny, slim, thin
- weak, feeble, frail
- thin (generally)
- Synonym: ince
- worthless
- Synonym: değersiz
- stunted, underdeveloped (of a plant)
- Synonym: gelişememiş
- weak, faint, dim (of light or sound)
Noun
[edit]cılız (definite accusative cılızı, plural cılızlar)
References
[edit]- “cılız”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cılız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 796a
- Dankoff, Robert (1995) Armenian Loanwords in Turkish (Turcologica; 21), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, § E131, page 184
- “cılız”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), volume 3, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1968, page 912b