گوشكلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From گوشك (gevşek, “loose, slack, lax”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

گوشكلك • (gevşeklik)

1. looseness, laxity, slackness, the state of being free from rigidity or restraint
2. languor, lassitude, listlessness, the state of being indifferent or apathetic

Descendants

• Turkish: gevşeklik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “gevşeklik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1695
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “گوشكلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 402b
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “گوشكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1055
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Laxitas”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 927
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “گوشكلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4081
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “گوشكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2217