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frengi

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish فرنكی (frengi, European; syphilis). Related to frenk (and thus English Frank), a term applied to Europeans more generally in Ottoman times when the disease was also known as فرنك زحمتی (firank zahmeti, European disease).

Noun

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frengi (definite accusative frengiyi, uncountable)

  1. (pathology) syphilis
    Synonym: sifilis
    • 1937 September 13, advertisement in Cumhuriyet, page 10:
      PROFİLAKSİN Belsoğukluğu ve frengiden korur.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فرنكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 896
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “frengi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فرنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1380
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN