یالڭزلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یالڭز (yalñız, “alone, lonely”) +‎ ـلك (-lık, luk, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

یالڭزلك • (yalñızlık)

  1. solitude, aloneness, the state of being alone, or by oneself
    Synonyms: برلك (birlik), عزلت (ʿazlet)
  2. loneliness, lonesomeness, depression resulting from being alone
    Synonym: تنهالق (tenhalık)

Descendants
  • Turkish: yalnızlık

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yalnızlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5182
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یالڭزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1344
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Solitudo”, 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) “یالڭزلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 5550
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یالڭزلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2192
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