گوشكلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From گوشك (gevşek, “loose, slack, lax”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

گوشكلك • (gevşeklik)

  1. looseness, laxity, slackness, the state of being free from rigidity or restraint
  2. languor, lassitude, listlessness, the state of being indifferent or apathetic

Descendants
  • Turkish: gevşeklik

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gevşeklik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1695
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “گوشكلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 402b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گوشكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1055
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Laxitas”, 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 927
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گوشكلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4081
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گوشكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2217
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