frengi

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فرنكی (frengi, “European; syphilis”). Related to frenk (and thus English Frank), a term applied to Europeans more generally in Ottoman times when the disease was also known as فرنك زحمتی (firank zahmeti, “European disease”).

Noun

frengi (definite accusative frengiyi, uncountable)

1. (pathology) syphilis

   Synonym: sifilis

   • 1937 September 13, advertisement in Cumhuriyet, page 10:

     PROFİLAKSİN Belsoğukluğu ve frengiden korur.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فرنكی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 896
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “frengi”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فرنك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1380
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN