frengi
Appearance
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]frengi (definite accusative frengiyi, uncountable)
- (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
[edit]- 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