نازك

See also: نازک

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian نازک (nâzok, nâzak).

According to Nisanyan the transformation of the final vowel from /u/ or /y/ to /i/ occurred in the 13th century. This form is found in nearly all Turkic borrowings of the word including the more Persianized languages such as Uzbek nozik and Azerbaijani nazik. See Persian نازک for the list of borrowings.

Adjective

نازك • (nâzik)

1. delicate (easily damaged)
2. thin, slender
3. clean
4. polite

Descendants

• Turkish: nazik

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نازك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2062
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nazik”, in Nişanyan Sözlük