پیسلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From پیس (pis, “dirty, filthy”) +‎ ـلك (-lik).

Noun

پیسلك • (pislik)

1. dirt, filth, squalor, any foul matter which soils or defiles

   Synonyms: چرك (çirk), كیر (kir)

2. (by extension) crap, mess, muck, excrement, human or animal feces

Descendants

• Turkish: pislik
• → Albanian: pisllëk

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pislik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3863
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پیسلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 331
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیسلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 464