یوركسزلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یوركسز (yüreksiz, “timid, cowardly; unexcited, apathetic”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness”).

Noun

یوركسزلك • (yüreksizlik)

1. timidness, cowardice, worthlessness

   Synonym: طبانسزلق (tabansızlık)

2. apathy, indifference, lack of enthusiasm

Descendants

• Turkish: yüreksizlik

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yüreksizlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5407
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یوركسزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ignavia”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 724
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یوركسزلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 5617