شاشیلق
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From شاشی (şaşı, “squint-eyed, cross-eyed”) + ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness”).
Noun edit
شاشیلق • (şaşılık)
- strabismus, squint, a defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles
Descendants edit
- Turkish: şaşılık
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “şaşılık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4438
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “شاشیلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 714
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “شاشیلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1109