حیوانلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From حیوان (hayvan, “animal”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, “-ness”).

Noun

حیوانلق • (hayvanlık)

1. beastliness, brutality, brutishness, the state of being beastly, brutal, or brutish

Derived terms

• حیوانلق ایتمك (hayvanlık itmek, “to act stupidly or brutally”)

Descendants

• Turkish: hayvanlık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hayvanlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1917
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “حیوانلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 524
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “حیوانلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1828
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “حیوانلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 817