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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish یولسز (yolsuz), equivalent to yol + -suz.
Adjective
yolsuz
- (literally) roadless, trackless
- (figuratively) wrong, illegal, corrupt
1938 June 28, Anadolu Agency, “Mısır Kralının teftişleri”, in Doğu, page 3:Dün Kral Majeste Faruk otomobile şehirede bir gezinti yapmış ve bazı resmî müesseseleri teftiş etmiştir. Teftiş esnasında yolsuz hareketlerini gördüğü üç büyük memura işten el çektirilmesini emretmiştir.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (historical) banned from his guild for impropriety
Derived terms
References
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یولسز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2219
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 1261