لاشی

See also: لاشى

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic لَا شَيْء (lā šayʔ).

Noun

لاشی • (laşey)

  1. something worthless, a trifle
    • 1890, Ahmet Mithat, “نفر [the ordinary soldier]”, in ضابط [Officer]‎[1]:
      بر زمانلر دنیانك هر طرفنده نفر غایت مستحقر بر لاشی ایمش.
      Bir zamanlar dünyanın her tarafından nefer gayet müstahkar bir laşey imiş.
      At one time all around the world the private soldier was a most insignificant nobody.

Descendants

  • Turkish: laşey

Further reading

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “laşey”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 705
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لاشی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1072
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