آیازلامق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- آیازلمق (ayazlamak)
Etymology
From آیاز (ayaz, “frost”) + ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
آیازلامق • (ayazlamak)
- (intransitive) to spend the night out in the cold, exposed to clear frosts or dews
- (intransitive, figuratively) to wait in vain, to wait for someone or something uselessly
Descendants
- Turkish: ayazlamak
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آیاز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 212
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ayazlamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 379
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آیازلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 42
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آیازلمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 283