یشیللك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یشیل (yeşil, “green”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

یشیللك • (yeşillik)

1. greenness, the state or quality of being green in color
2. greenery, verdure, all the vegetation with green foliage

Descendants

• Turkish: yeşillik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yeşillik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5305
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یشیللك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1352
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یشیللك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2203