زندیق

See also: زنديق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زِنْدِيق (zindīq, “heretic, atheist”).

Noun

زندیق • (zındık) (definite accusative زندیغی (zındığı), plural زنادیق (zenâdık))

1. (religion) pagan, heathen, a person not adhering to an Abrahamic religion, a follower of a pantheistic or nature-worshipping religion

   Synonym: كافر (kâfir)

2. (religion) heretic, misbeliever, someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to

   Synonym: ملحد (mulhid)

3. (Islam, historical) zindiq, a person whose views or practices were considered contrary to Islamic dogma, especially a Manichaean

Adjective

زندیق • (zındık)

1. pagan, heathen, not adhering to one of the Abrahamic religions, believing in two or more gods

   Synonym: كافر (kâfir)

2. heretical, of or pertaining to heresy or heretics, whose beliefs are contrary to a specific religion

Derived terms

• زندیقلق (zındıklık, “atheism”)
• زندیقی (zındıkî, “atheism”)
• زندیقیت (zındıkiyet, “atheism”)

Descendants

• Turkish: zındık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zındık1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5471
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زندیق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 649
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Atheos”, 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 96
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زندیق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2475
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “zındık”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زندیق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1016