فلاكت
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian فلاکت (falākat). Compare Azerbaijani fəlakət.
Noun
editفلاكت • (felaket)
- adversity, misfortune
- disaster, catastrophe
Related terms
edit- فلك (felek, “sphere of the heavens; fortune, fate”)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: felâket
References
edit- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فلاكت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 908
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “felaket”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فلاكت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1394