ضعیفلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From ضعیف (zaʼif, “weak, feeble; slim, slender”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness”).

Noun

ضعیفلق • (zaʼiflık)

1. feebleness, debility, infirmity, the quality or state of being feeble, infirm, or debilitated

   Synonym: درمانسزلق (dermansızlık)

2. slimness, thinness, meagerness, the quality or property of being slim, thin, or meager

Descendants

• Turkish: zayıflık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zayıflık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5443
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ضعیفلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 785
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Debilitas”, 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 324
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ضعیفلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 3045
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضعیفلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1212