یوركسزلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یوركسز (yüreksiz, “timid, cowardly; unexcited, apathetic”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness”).

Noun

یوركسزلك • (yüreksizlik)

  1. timidness, cowardice, worthlessness
    Synonym: طبانسزلق (tabansızlık)
  2. 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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