Source: Wiktionary — "hüzün"
- Title: hüzün
- Publication: Wiktionary (English-language edition)
- URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hüzün
- Type: tertiary (crowdsourced dictionary); neutral stance
- Accessed: 2026-09-03
Extract
- Turkish noun. Etymology: from Ottoman Turkish حزن (ḥazen, ḥüzn), from Arabic حُزْن (ḥuzn), itself "a verbal noun of حَزَنَ (ḥazana, 'to make sad, to sadden')."
- Gloss given: "sadness, melancholy, gloominess."
- Listed synonyms: üzüntü, gam, keder, sıkıntı — i.e. hüzün sits among several ordinary Turkish words for sadness/sorrow, not as a lone or unique term.
- Full declension tables (singular/plural across grammatical cases) and derived terms (hüzünlü "melancholic," hüzün çökmek "melancholy to descend/settle") are given, consistent with treatment as an entirely ordinary, productive headword.
- No English-language section exists on this page — the page is a Turkish entry with English-language glosses provided by Wiktionary's editorial apparatus, not an attestation of the word's use in English.
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- Does not discuss Pamuk's specific literary elaboration of the word or its popular "untranslatable" reputation — a purely lexicographic entry.