شاشیلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From شاشی (şaşı, “squint-eyed, cross-eyed”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness”).

Noun

شاشیلق • (şaşılık)

strabismus, squint, a defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles

Descendants

Turkish: şaşılık

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şaşılık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4438
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاشیلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 714
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاشیلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1109

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