تمیزلك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From تمیز (temiz, “clean, pure”) + ـلك (-lik, “-ship, -ness, -hood”).
Noun
تمیزلك • (temizlik) (definite accusative تمیزلكی (temizliği), uncountable)
- cleanliness, purity
- Synonym: طهارت (tahâret)
Descendants
- Turkish: temizlik
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “temizlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4723
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تمیزلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 404
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تمیزلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 595