بوقلامق
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- بوقلمق (boklamak)
Etymology
From بوق (bok, “excrement”) + ـلا (-la, suffix forming verbs).
Verb
بوقلامق • (boklamak)
- (transitive) to befoul, soil, contaminate, especially with feces
- (transitive, figurative) to mismanage
Descendants
- Turkish: boklamak
Further reading
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- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “boklamak”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 647
- Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “بوقلمق”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 133b
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بوقلامق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 290
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Sordidare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1575
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “بوقلمق”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 934
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “بوقلامق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 405