دینسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دین (din, “religion”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, “-less”).

Adjective

دینسز • (dinsiz)

1. atheistic, non-believing, not believing in deities

   Synonyms: ایمانسز (imansız), كافر (kâfir)

2. cruel, merciless, unmerciful, not showing mercy

   Synonyms: ظالم (zalim), غدار (gaddar)

Derived terms

• دینسزجه (dinsizce, “cruelly”)
• دینسزلك (dinsizlik, “atheism”)
• دینسزلنمك (dinsizlenmek, “to become an atheist”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: dinsiz
• → Armenian: տինսիզ (tinsiz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dinsiz1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1232
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دینسز”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 240a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دینسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Infidelis”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 797
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دینسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2218
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دینسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 940