karışık

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قارشق (karışık, “mixed, adulterated, confused, disordered”),[1] from قارشمق (karışmak, “to join and mix, to become confused and disordered, to interfere, to exercise control”), from Proto-Turkic *karïĺ- (“to be mixed with one another, to be tacked onto each other”), from *kar- (“to mix”) +‎ *-ïĺ (“reflexive suffix”),[2][3] morphologically kar- +‎ -ış- +‎ -ık.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ɾɯˈʃɯk/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧rı‧şık

Adjective

karışık

  1. Consisting of things of different qualities; mixed, diverse, assorted.
    Synonyms: çeşitli, türlü, (dated) muhtelif
    Tüm bu gelişmeleri karışık duygularla izliyorum. ― I am watching all these developments with mixed feelings.
  2. In disorder, untidy, disorganized.
    Synonyms: düzensiz, dağınık, (dated) intizamsız
  3. (with instrumental) Mixed with, blended with.
    Bazı kentlere sağanak yağış ve karla karışık yağmur uyarısı da yapıldı. ― Some cities were warned against heavy rains and sleet. (literally, “rain mixed with snow”)
  4. Not pure, hybrid, composite, impure.
    Synonyms: katışık, (obsolete) mahlut, (obsolete) mağşuş
    Antonym: saf
  5. Difficult to understand, complex, complicated, tricky.
    Synonyms: karmaşık, çapraşık, kompleks, komplike
    Bir uğurböceği sürmekten daha karışık olamaz sanırım. ― I don't suppose it can be more complicated that riding a ladybug.

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Ladino: karishik

References

  1. Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قارشق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1410
  2. Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kiār-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
  3. Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “karış-”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Further reading

  • “karışık”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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