لذت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَذَّة‎ (laḏḏa, “deliciousness”).

Noun

لذت • (lezzet) (plural الذت‎)

taste, savour, especially a sweet or pleasant one
Synonyms: (taste) چاشنی‎ (çeşni), ذوق‎ (zevk), طات‎ (tat), مزه‎ (meze), نمك‎ (nemek)
power of any thing to give pleasure or delight

Derived terms

لذتسز‎ (lezzetsiz, “tasteless”)
لذتلنمك‎ (lezzetlenmek, “to become savory”)
لذتلی‎ (lezzetli, “savory, flavoured”)

Descendants

Turkish: lezzet

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “lezzet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2962
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “لذت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1076
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Gustus”, 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, Vienna, column 677
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “لذة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4164
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “lezzet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “لذت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1632

Persian

Alternative forms

لذّت (lezzat) (with a shadda)

Etymology

From Arabic لَذَّة‎ (laḏḏa).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /laðˈðat/, / lazˈzat/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /lazˈzat/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /lezˈzæt/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /lazˈzat/

Audio (Iran) (file)

Noun

Iranian Persian	لذت
Dari	لذت
Tajik	лаззат (lazzat)

لذت • (lezzat)

Derived terms

اوج لذت جنسی‎ (owj-e lezzat-e jensi)
لذت بردن‎ (lezzat bordan)

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