لیمانلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From لیمان (liman, “port, harbour, haven”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, luk).

Noun

لیمانلق • (limanlık)

1. quality or capability of a place of being a harbour
2. (nautical) dead calm, the condition of a perfectly flat sea
3. state of the atmosphere when the sea is smooth
4. calm, quietness or lull in troublesome times

Descendants

• Turkish: limanlık
• → Middle Armenian: լիմանլըխ (limanləx)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “limanlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2968
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لیمانلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1086
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لیمانلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 4219
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لیمانلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1650