هایلازلق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- خایلازلق (haylazlık), خیلازلق (haylazlık)
Etymology
From هایلاز (haylaz, “idle, lazy”) + ـلق (-lik, -luk, “-ness, -hood”).
Noun
هایلازلق • (haylazlık) (definite accusative هایلازلغی (haylazlığı), plural هایلازلقلر (haylazlıklar))
- laziness, idleness, indolence, sloth, sluggishness, the property or quality of being lazy or idle
- Synonym: تنبللك (tembellik)
Descendants
- Turkish: haylazlık
- → Macedonian: ајљазлак (ajljazlak)
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “haylazlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1914
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “هایلازلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2156