كسكینلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كسكین (keskin, “sharp, keen”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, luk, “-ness”).

Noun

كسكینلك • (keskinlik)

  1. sharpness, keenness, the cutting ability of an edge
  2. pungency, acridity, the state of being pungent or acrid
  3. incisiveness, incisivity, the state of being incisive

Descendants
  • Turkish: keskinlik

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “keskinlik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2572
  • Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “كسكینلك”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 390b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كسكینلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1026
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Acies”, 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 14
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كسكینلك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 3953
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كسكینلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1550
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