mahluk
Turkish
Alternative forms
- mahlûk
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish مخلوق (maḫluḳ, “created, a creature”),[1][2] from Arabic مَخْلُوق (maḵlūq, “creature”), passive participle of خَلَقَ (ḵalaqa, “to create, to make, to shape”).[3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mahˈluk/, (definite accusative) /mahˈluːku/
- Hyphenation: mah‧luk
Noun
mahluk (definite accusative mahluku, plural mahluklar or (dated) mahlukat)
Declension
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | mahluk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | mahluku | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | mahluk | mahluklar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | mahluku | mahlukları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | mahluka | mahluklara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | mahlukta | mahluklarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | mahluktan | mahluklardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | mahlukun | mahlukların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مخلوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1780
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قائم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1137
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mahluk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “mahluk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “mahluk¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3017
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