مردارلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مردار (murdar, “dirty, filthy”) +‎ ـلك (-lik).

Noun

مردارلق • (murdarlık)

1. dirt, filth, grime, squalor, muck, any foul matter which soils or defiles

   Synonyms: پیسلك (pislik), چرك (çirk), كیر (kir)

2. (by extension) crap, mess, muck, excrement, human or animal feces

   Synonyms: بوق (bok), پیسلك (pislik)

3. uncleanness, dirtiness, filthiness, the state of being unclean or dirty

   Synonym: پیسلك (pislik)

Descendants

• Turkish: murdarlık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “murdarlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3311
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مردارلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1148
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مردارلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1808