مردارلق
Ottoman Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom مردار (murdar, “dirty, filthy”) + ـلك (-lik).
Noun
editمردارلق • (murdarlık)
- dirt, filth, grime, squalor, muck, any foul matter which soils or defiles
- (by extension) crap, mess, muck, excrement, human or animal feces
- uncleanness, dirtiness, filthiness, the state of being unclean or dirty
- Synonym: پیسلك (pislik)
Descendants
edit- Turkish: murdarlık
Further reading
edit- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “murdarlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3311
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مردارلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1148
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مردارلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1808