Inherited fromOttoman Turkishدریڭلك(deriñlik,“depth, profundity, abstruseness, a deep place, a hollow”),[1] fromOttoman Turkishدریڭ(deriñ,“deep, profound, a depth, deep place”), fromProto-Turkic*teriŋ(“deep”),[2] fromProto-Turkic*teri-(“to collect, to accumulate”),[3] morphologicallyderin +-lik.
- IPA(key): /de.ɾinˈlic/
- Hyphenation:der‧rin‧lik
derinlik (definite accusativederinliği,pluralderinlikler)
- The distance from thebottom of a thing to itssurface;depth.
- (physics) Thethird dimension apart fromwidth andheight; thez-axis.
- Thefurther place relevant to one's current position.
- (figuratively) Theessence,core, theheart of a matter.
- (figuratively) (of the heart, the soul) The mostsensitive spot.
- (figuratively) Anunknown,darkperiod of time.
- ^Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دریڭلك”, inA Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian,page899
- ^Starostin, Sergei,Dybo, Anna,Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*deriŋ”, inEtymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “derin”, inNişanyan Sözlük
