alçak

Betekenis

1. Not having much distance from the ground, not high; low.
2. Not tall; short.
3. (derogatory,figuratively) Vile, immoral, dishonorable.

Met koppelteken als

al‧çak

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/aɫˈt͡ʃak/

Etymologie

From Ottoman Turkish آلچاق (alçaḳ, “low, short in stature, shallow, vile, despicable”), from Proto-Turkic *ăl (“lower side, below, being below, lower”). According to Talât Tekin Turkish aşağı (from aşak) and alçak are doublets, since ĺč turns into ş in Common Turkic. But longs vowels do not fit together in Turkmen alçak (alçak) and aşak (aşa:k).
An alternative etymology is suggested by Hüseyin Yıldız as alt (“bottom, base”) + -sa- (“derives verbs from nouns and adjectives”) + -k (“participle suffix”), where the /ts/ sound undergoes a phonetic change and turns into /t͡ʃ/, in which way derivations like alçak, alçalmak (“to become low, to stoop, to degenerate”) as well as آلچامق (alçamaḳ, “to treat as vile, to become low”)(which does not exist in Modern Turkish) are made.

Zinnen

Alçak yerde tepecik kendisini dağ sanır.

Tepecik is een berg op de lage plaats.

Dört ayak merdivenle inildikten sonra alçak bir kapı vardı .

Nadat de vier voet op de trap was geland, was er een lage deur.

Alçak bir tavan gibi , ıslak yerlere yaklaşan bulutlarla, ufkun manzarası münasebetsiz ve çirkindi.

Als een laag plafond, wolken die natte plaatsen naderen, was het uitzicht op de horizon niet gerelateerd en lelijk.