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Dangalak: sıf. ve i. dangıl veya dıngıl “oynama ve sallanma sesi” ses yansımalı sözcüğünden +AlAk ekiyle
dangoz (ses taklidi k. [?]) bonehead [1] stupid [2] crass[3] gross [4] EN; Kalın kafalı, budala, akılsız (kimse), patavatsız: Hay, sen kimi kime vurduracaksın dangalak! (Mustafa N. Sepetçioğlu).
Sources: fromTR dıngıl [Meninski, Thesaurus, 1680] dengel, dingel: ebleh, bī-endām, deyyūs
fromTR dangalak “boş konuşan, aptal” [Ahmed Vefik Paşa, Lehce-ı Osmani, 1876]
dangalak: dangıl dungul lakırdı eden, kaba adam
[Cumhuriyet (gazete), 2005]
Haddimizi aşmış olmayalım, ama galiba bizi 'dıngıl' yerine koyuyorlar.
[2] stupid (adj.) 1540s, "mentally slow, lacking ordinary activity of mind, dull, inane," from French stupide (16c.) and directly from Latin stupidus "amazed, confounded; dull, foolish," literally "struck senseless," from stupere "be stunned, amazed, confounded," from PIE *stupe- "hit," from root *(s)teu- (1) "to push, stick, knock, beat" (see steep (adj.)). Related: Stupidly; stupidness.
Native words for this idea include negative compounds with words for "wise" (Old English unwis, unsnotor, ungleaw), also dol (see dull (adj.)), and dysig (see dizzy (adj.)). Stupid retained its association with stupor and its overtones of "stunned by surprise, grief, etc." into mid-18c. The difference between stupid and the less opprobrious foolish roughly parallels that of German töricht vs. dumm but does not exist in most European languages.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. [Bertrand Russell, paraphrasing Helvétius]
[3] crass (adj.) 1540s, "thick, coarse, gross, not thin or fine," from French crasse (16c.), from Latin crassus "solid, thick, fat; dense," which is of unknown origin. The literal sense always has been rare in English. The meaning in reference to personal qualities, etc., "grossly stupid, obtuse" is recorded from 1650s, from French. Middle English had cras (adj.) "slow, sluggish, tardy" (mid-15c.), also crassitude "thickness." Related: Crassly; crassness. krass GER; grosse FR
[4] gross (adj.) mid-14c., "large;" early 15c., "thick," also "coarse, plain, simple," from Old French gros "big, thick, fat; tall; strong, powerful; pregnant; coarse, rude, awkward; ominous, important; arrogant" (11c.), from Late Latin grossus "thick, coarse" (of food or mind), in Medieval Latin "great, big" (source also of Spanish grueso, Italian grosso), a word of obscure origin, not in classical Latin. Said to be unrelated to Latin crassus, which meant the same thing, or to German gross "large," but said by Klein to be cognate with Old Irish bres, Middle Irish bras "big."
Its meaning forked in English. Via the notion of "coarse in texture or quality" came the senses "not sensitive, dull stupid" (1520s), "vulgar, coarse in a moral sense" (1530s). Via notion of "general, not in detail" came the sense "entire, total, whole, without deductions" (early 15c.), as in gross national product (1947). Meaning "glaring, flagrant, monstrous" is from 1580s; modern meaning "disgusting" is first recorded 1958 in U.S. student slang, from earlier use as an intensifier of unpleasant things (gross stupidity, etc.).