درمانسز

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From درمان (derman, “remedy, solution, cure”) +‎ ـسز (-sız, -suz, “-less”).

Adjective

درمانسز • (dermansız)

1. irremediable, irreparable, incurable, unable to be remedied or cured

   Synonyms: چاره‌سز (çaresiz), علاجسز (ʼilacsız)

2. debilitated, feeble, weakened, infirm, deficient in physical strength

Derived terms

• درمانسزلق (dermansızlık, “irremediableness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: dermansız
• → Armenian: տէրմանսըզ (tērmansəz)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dermansız”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1174
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “درمانسز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 570
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Irremediabilis”, 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 873
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “درمانسز”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2062
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “درمانسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 897