یوركسزلك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یوركسز (yüreksiz, “timid, cowardly; unexcited, apathetic”) + ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness”).
Noun
یوركسزلك • (yüreksizlik)
- timidness, cowardice, worthlessness
- Synonym: طبانسزلق (tabansızlık)
- apathy, indifference, lack of enthusiasm
Descendants
- Turkish: yüreksizlik
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “yüreksizlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5407
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “یوركسزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Ignavia”, 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 724
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “یوركسزلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5617
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