دینسزلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From دینسز (dinsiz, “atheistic; cruel, merciless”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

دینسزلك • (dinsizlik)

1. (religion) atheism, irreligion, a lack of belief in deities

   Synonyms: ایمانسزلق (imansızlık), كفر (küfr)

2. cruelty, mercilessness, the property of being merciless

Descendants

• Turkish: dinsizlik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dinsizlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1232
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دینسزلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 240a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دینسزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 601
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Infidelitas”, 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 797
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دینسزلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2218
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دینسزلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 940