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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From پیس (pis, “dirty, filthy”) + ـلك (-lik).
Noun
پیسلك • (pislik)
- dirt, filth, squalor, any foul matter which soils or defiles
- Synonyms: چرك (çirk), كیر (kir), مردارلق (murdarlık)
- (by extension) crap, mess, muck, excrement, human or animal feces
- Synonyms: بوق (bok), مردارلق (murdarlık)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pislik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3863
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پیسلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 331
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پیسلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 464