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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic لَذَّة (laḏḏa, “deliciousness”).
Noun
لذت • (lezzet) (plural الذت)
- taste, savour, especially a sweet or pleasant one
- Synonyms: (taste) چاشنی (çeşni), ذوق (zevk), طات (tat), مزه (meze), نمك (nemek)
- power of any thing to give pleasure or delight
Derived terms
- لذتسز (lezzetsiz, “tasteless”)
- لذتلنمك (lezzetlenmek, “to become savory”)
- لذتلی (lezzetli, “savory, flavoured”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lezzet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2962
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لذت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1076
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Gustus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 677
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لذة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 4164
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lezzet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لذت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1632
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic لَذَّة (laḏḏa).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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laḏḏat, lazzat
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Dari reading?
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lazzat
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Iranian reading?
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lezzat
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Tajik reading?
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lazzat
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Noun
Dari
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لذت
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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лаззат
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لذت • (lezzat)
- pleasure
- delight
- enjoyment
Derived terms
Descendants