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) (dated)

  1. (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
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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