هایلاز

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• حایلاز (haylaz), خایلاز (haylaz), خیلاز (haylaz)

Etymology

Deteriorated from هایلامز (haylamaz), negative participle of هایلامق (haylamak, “to care, to take notice”).

Adjective

هایلاز • (haylaz)

1. idle, lazy, indolent, slothful, sluggish, averse to work, labor or employment

   Synonyms: اوشنكن (üşengen), تنبل (tembel), كاهل (kâhil)

Derived terms

• هایلازلانمق (haylazlanmak, “to become idle and lazy”)
• هایلازلق (haylazlık, “idleness, laziness”)

Descendants

• Turkish: haylaz
• → Albanian: hajlaz
• → Armenian: հայլազ (haylaz)
• → Bulgarian: хайла́з (hajláz), хайла́зин (hajlázin), хайля́з (hajljáz), хайля́зин (hajljázin)
• → Macedonian: ајљаз (ajljaz)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: а̀јлаз, ха̀јлаз

  Latin script: àjlaz, hàjlaz

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “خایلاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 687
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “haylaz”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1914
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “خایلاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎ (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 530
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “haylaz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “هایلاز”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2156
• Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901), “هایلاز”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 1505