Source: Türk Dil Kurumu (TDK), Güncel Türkçe Sözlük — "hüzün"
- Title: hüzün (Güncel Türkçe Sözlük entry)
- Publication: Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Association), the official state Turkish-language dictionary
- URL: https://sozluk.gov.tr/?kelime=hüzün (queried directly via the dictionary's
gtsJSON API,https://sozluk.gov.tr/gts?ara=h%C3%BCz%C3%BCn, after the ordinary page rendered no content toWebFetch— a JavaScript-rendered site requiring the direct API endpoint, the same class of obstacle this project has hit before with other JS-rendered dictionary sites) - Type: primary (official source-language lexicographic authority — this project's first directly read primary Turkish dictionary entry)
- Accessed: 2026-09-03
Extract
- Single sense given: "Gönül üzgünlüğü; melankoli" ("heart-sorrow; melancholy") — one plain, ordinary definition, not multiple senses or an extended entry.
- Etymology tag: "Arapça ḥuzn" (Arabic ḥuzn), confirming the loanword derivation independently of Wiktionary.
- Part of speech: noun (isim).
- One illustrative example sentence is given, from a novel by contemporary Turkish writer Ahmet Ümit: "Morgun parlak mermer duvarlarında dağılan gölgemin hüzün verici bir görüntüsü var" ("In the bright marble walls of the morgue, my scattered shadow has a hüzün-inducing appearance") — an entirely unremarkable literary usage, not one invoking any special national or philosophical weight.
- Three related idiomatic entries are cross-listed: hüzne kapılmak ("to be overcome by hüzün"), hüzün çökmek ("for hüzün to descend/settle"), and hüzün duymak ("to feel hüzün").
- This is a plain, single-sense, ordinary headword entry in the official state dictionary — directly parallel to this project's other "ordinary word in the source language" findings (komorebi's Japanese dictionaries, gezellig's Dutch treatment), and evidence against any claim that hüzün is itself an unusual or rare word within Turkish.
Gaps
- The TDK entry gives no discussion of Pamuk's specific literary elaboration, the "communal vs. individual" distinction he draws, or the word's Sufi/religious register — it is a plain general-language dictionary entry, not a study of the word's cultural life.