رذالت

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

(misspelling) رزالت

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَذَالَة (raḏāla, “vice, lowness, vileness”).

Noun

رذالت • (rezâlet) (definite accusative رذالتی (rezâleti), plural رذالتلر (rezâletler))

vileness, baseness, meanness, despicableness, lowness
Synonym: آلچاقلق (alçaklık)
disgrace, dishonor, deplorableness, ignominy, infamy
Synonym: آلچاقلق (alçaklık)
scandal, outrage

Derived terms

رذالت خانه (rezâlet hâne, “barrelhouse, honky-tonk”)

Descendants

Turkish: rezalet
→ Armenian: ըռէզալէթ (əṙēzalētʻ)
→ Ladino: ריזאליט (rezalet)
→ Romanian: rezalet

Further reading

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Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886), “رذالت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 16
Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “rezalet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3964
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “rezâlet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1068
Kélékian, Diran (1911), “رذالت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 619
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vilitas”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 1761
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “رذالة”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2303
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “rezalet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890), “رذالت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 971

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَذَالَة (raḏāla).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ra.ðaː.ˈlat/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [rä.zɑː.lát̪]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [rä.zɑː.lát̪]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [rä.zɔː.lát̪]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ɹe.zɒː.lǽt̪ʰ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ɾä.zɔ.lát̪]

Readings
Classical reading^?	raḏālat
Dari reading^?	razālat
Iranian reading^?	rezâlat
Tajik reading^?	razolat

Noun

رذالت • (razālat / rezâlat) (plural رذایل (razāyil / razâyel), Tajik spelling разолат)

vileness, baseness
Synonym: پستی (pastī / pasti)

Further reading

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “رذالت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim