مجنونلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From مجنون (mecnun, “crazy, mad, lunatik”) +‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness”).

Noun

مجنونلق • (mecnunluk) (definite accusative مجنونلغی (mecnunluğu), plural مجنونلقلر (mecnunluklar))

1. madness, craziness, insanity, lunacy, the state of being mad, crazy, or insane

   Synonyms: جنت (cinnet), دلیلك (delilik), دیوانه‌لك (divânelik), مجنونیت (mecnuniyet)

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مجنونلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1123
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Insania”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 821
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مجنونلق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 4410
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مجنونلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1752