zayi

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ضائع, from Arabic ضَائِع (ḍāʔiʕ), active participle of ضَاعَ (ḍāʕa).

Adjective

zayi

1. lost
2. gone
3. destroyed

Derived terms

• zayi etmek (“to lose”)
• zayi olmak (“to be lost”)

Related terms

• zayiat

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ضائع”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1205
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1275