yokluk
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوقلق (yoḳluḳ, “absence, non-existence, lack”),[1][2] from Ottoman Turkish یوق (yoḳ, “absent, not present, non-existent”), from Proto-Turkic *yōk (“is not, there is not”),[3][4] morphologically yok + -luk.
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Noun edit
yokluk (definite accusative yokluğu, plural yokluklar)
- Absence, nonexistence, lack.
- (figuratively) poverty, hardship
- (philosophy) nothingness, nihility
- Synonym: hiçlik
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References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یوقلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2217
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوقلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1366
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*jōk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “yok”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading edit
- “yokluk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yokluk¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5349