خرچینلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From خرچین (hırçın, “bad-tempered, peevish, cross”) ‎ ـلق (-lık, -luk, “-ness”).

Noun

خرچینلق • (hırçınlık)

1. bad temper, ill humor, peevishness, crankiness, crossness, a disagreeable, irritable or sullen mood

Descendants

• Turkish: hırçınlık

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “hırçınlık”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1949
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خرچینلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 535
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خرچینلق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 838