خفیفلنمك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From خفیف (hafif, “light, not heavy”) + ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).
Verb
خفیفلنمك • (hafiflenmek)
- (intransitive) to become light or lighter in weight
- (intransitive) to lighten up, to become less serious
Further reading
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “خفیفلنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 547