صاغرلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صاغر (sağır, “deaf”) +‎ ـلق (-lik, “-ness”).

Noun

صاغرلق • (sağırlık)

1. deafness, the condition of being deaf

   Synonym: صمم (samem)

2. (of sound or voice) dullness, indistinctness
3. (phonetics) nasality, the state of being nasal

Descendants

• Turkish: sağırlık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sağırlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4015
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “صاغرلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 748
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Surditas”, 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 1636
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “صاغرلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2919
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صاغرلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1157