helak
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Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish هلاك (helak, “death, destruction; exhaustion”), from Arabic هَلَاك (halāk).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]helak (definite accusative helaki, plural helakler)
- dying, killing, destroying, getting destroyed
- (figurative) becoming exhausted or making someone exhausted
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “helak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هلاك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2166
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN