یوركسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یورك (yürek, “heart”) +‎ ـسز (-siz, “-less”)

Adjective

یوركسز • (yüreksiz)

1. timid, timorous, lacking in courage or confidence

   Synonym: طبانسز (tabansız)

2. lukewarm, unenthusiastic, unexcited, apathetic

Derived terms

• یوركسزلك (yüreksizlik, “timidness, cowardice”)

Descendants

• Turkish: yüreksiz

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yüreksiz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5407
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوركسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Excors”, 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 498
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوركسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5617
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوركسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2213