جومردلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From جومرد (cömerd, “generous, liberal”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

جومردلك • (cömerdlik)

1. generosity, munificence, liberality, largesse, the trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time

   Synonyms: سماحت (semahat), ویركی (vergi)

Descendants

• Turkish: cömertlik

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “جومرد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 543
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cömertlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 833
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “جومردلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 192a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “جومردلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 450
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Liberalitas”, 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 943
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “جومردلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1684
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جومردلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 691