müşkül

From Arabic مُشْكِل (muškil).

• Hyphenation: müş‧kül

müşkül

1. difficult

• “müşkül”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Ottoman Turkish مشكل (müşkil), from Arabic مُشْكِل (muškil), from أَشْكَلَ (ʔaškala, “to be ambiguous, difficult”)

• IPA^(key): /myʃˈcyl/

müşkül

1. difficult

   1948, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba‎^[1], page 42:

   Gel de beni şu müşkül mevkiden kurtar, bir türlü söz anlatamıyorum.

   Please come rescue me from this difficult situation; I just can't seem to get my point across.

2. doubtful

müşkül (definite accusative müşkülü, plural müşküller)

1. problem, difficulty
2. doubt

• müşkülat (Arabic plural)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “müşkül”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “مشكل”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1870
• Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN