dalalet
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ضلالت (dalalet, “being astray or lost; error”), from Arabic ضَلَالَة (ḍalāla), verbal noun of ضَلَّ (ḍalla, “to go astray; to lose”). The initial d is unusual; more often ض (ḍ) in Arabic becomes z when borrowed into in Turkish.
Noun
dalalet (definite accusative dalaleti, plural dalaletler)
- (chiefly religion) error; corruption; going astray
- Synonym: sapkınlık
References
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “dalalet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ضلالت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1213
- The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, 2013, →ISBN