frengi

Turkish

Etymology

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

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 quote)

References

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

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