اوزدكلمك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From اوزدك (özdek, “tree trunk; stalk, stem, haulm”) + ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).
Verb
اوزدكلمك • (özdeklemek)
- (intransitive) to glean, lease, to collect fallen ears from a field after the main gathering or harvest
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اوزدك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 161
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوزدكلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 186
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اوزدكلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 250