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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From نازك (nâzik, “delicate; graceful, elegant; polite, courteous”) + ـلك (-lik, “-ness, -hood”).
Noun
نازكلك • (nâziklik) (definite accusative نازكلكی (nâzikliği), plural نازكلكلر (nâziklikler))
- delicacy, refinement, the quality of being delicate, especially in taste, or discrimination
- Synonym: ظرافت (zarâfet)
- politeness, courteousness, civility, urbanity, the quality of being polite or courteous
- Synonyms: كبارلق (kibarlık), نزاكت (nezâket)
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Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “naziklik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3502
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “نازكلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français, Vienna: F. Beck, page 474b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نازكلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1261
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Teneritas”, 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 1660
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نازكلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5095
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نازكلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2062