دلیشمن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Possibly from دلی (deli, “mad, insane”) +‎ ـش (-ş) +‎ ـمن (-men).

Adjective

دلیشمن • (delişmen)

1. frolicsome, playful, eccentric

Descendants

• Turkish: delişmen
• → Bulgarian: делишме́н (delišmén)

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دلیشمن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 913
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دلیشمن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 580