بالابانلانمق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- بلابانلانمق (balabanlanmak)
Etymology
From بالابان (balaban, “large, big, huge”) + ـلانمق (-lanmak, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in back vowels).
Verb
بالابانلانمق • (balabanlanmak)
- (intransitive) to enlarge, grow, expand, to increase in size, to become larger
- Synonyms: ایریلشمك (irileşmek), بیومك (büyümek)
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بالابانلانمق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 246
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بلابانلانمق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 379