خرچینلق
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Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From خرچین (hırçın, “bad-tempered, peevish, cross”) + ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness”).
Noun
[edit]خرچینلق • (hırçınlık)
- bad temper, ill humor, peevishness, crankiness, crossness, a disagreeable, irritable or sullen mood
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: hırçınlık
Further reading
[edit]- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hırçınlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1949
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خرچینلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 535
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خرچینلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 838