پیسلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پیس (pis, “dirty, filthy”) +‎ ـلك (-lik).

Noun

پیسلك • (pislik)

dirt, filth, squalor, any foul matter which soils or defiles
Synonyms: چرك (çirk), كیر (kir)
(by extension) crap, mess, muck, excrement, human or animal feces

Descendants

Turkish: pislik
→ Albanian: pisllëk

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pislik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3863
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پیسلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 331
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیسلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 464

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