هایلاز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

  • حایلاز (haylaz), خایلاز (haylaz), خیلاز (haylaz)

Etymology

Deteriorated from هایلامز (haylamaz), negative participle of هایلامق (haylamak, to care, to take notice).

Adjective

هایلاز • (haylaz)

  1. idle, lazy, indolent, slothful, sluggish, averse to work, labor or employment
    Synonyms: اوشنكن (üşengen), تنبل (tembel), كاهل (kâhil)

Derived terms

  • هایلازلانمق (haylazlanmak, to become idle and lazy)
  • هایلازلق (haylazlık, idleness, laziness)

Descendants

  • Turkish: haylaz
  • Albanian: hajlaz
  • Armenian: հայլազ (haylaz)
  • Bulgarian: хайла́з (hajláz), хайла́зин (hajlázin), хайля́з (hajljáz), хайля́зин (hajljázin)
  • Macedonian: ајљаз (ajljaz)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: а̀јлаз, ха̀јлаз
    Latin script: àjlaz, hàjlaz

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