سمیزلنمك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From سمیز (semiz, “fat, obese, chubby”) + ـلن (-len, suffix forming passive verbs).
Verb
سمیزلنمك • (semizlenmek)
- (intransitive) to fatten, to gain weight, to put on weight
- Synonym: سمرمك (semirmek)
Descendants
- Turkish: semizlenmek
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “سمیز”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 98
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “semizlenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4139
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سمیزلنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1080