سیوریلك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From سیوری (sivri, “sharp-pointed, tapering”) +‎ ـلك (-lik, lük, “-ness, -ship, -hood”).

Noun

سیوریلك • (sivrilik)

sharp-pointedness, taperingness, conicalness, the state or quality of having a sharp point

Descendants

Turkish: sivrilik

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sivrilik”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4268
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سیوریلك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 711
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سیوریلك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1105

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