یوكسكلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یوكسك (yüksek, “high, elevated”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

یوكسكلك • (yükseklik)

  1. height, the distance from the base of something to the top
    Synonym: یوجه‌لك (yücelik)
  2. altitude, the absolute height of a location, maesured from sea level
    Synonym: ارتفاع (irtifaʿ)

Descendants
  • Turkish: yükseklik

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yükseklik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5399
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “یوكسكلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 514b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوكسكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 53
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Altitudo”, 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 1569
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوكسكلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 5629-5630
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوكسكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2217
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