لذت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَذَّة (laḏḏa, “deliciousness”).

Noun

لذت • (lezzet) (plural الذت)

1. taste, savour, especially a sweet or pleasant one

   Synonyms: (taste) چاشنی (çeşni), ذوق (zevk), طات (tat), مزه (meze), نمك (nemek)

2. power of any thing to give pleasure or delight

Derived terms

• لذتسز (lezzetsiz, “tasteless”)
• لذتلنمك (lezzetlenmek, “to become savory”)
• لذتلی (lezzetli, “savory, flavoured”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: lezzet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lezzet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2962
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لذت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1076
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gustus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 677
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لذة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4164
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lezzet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لذت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1632

Persian

Alternative forms

• لذّت (lezzat) (with a shadda)

Etymology

From Arabic لَذَّة (laḏḏa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [laðˈðat], [ laz.ˈzat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lez.zǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [läzˈzät̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	laḏḏat, lazzat
Dari reading?	lazzat
Iranian reading?	lezzat
Tajik reading?	lazzat

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Noun

Dari	لذت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лаззат

لذت • (lezzat)

1. pleasure
2. delight
3. enjoyment

Derived terms

• اوج لذت جنسی (owj-e lezzat-e jensi)
• لذت بردن (lezzat bordan)