سوسلنمك
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From سوس (süs, “ornament, decoration”) + ـلنمك (-lenmek, suffix forming passive infinitives from stems ending in front vowels).
Verb
سوسلنمك • (süslenmek)
- (intransitive) to be decorated, embellished, adorned, bedecked, to become furnished with decorations
- Synonym: بزنمك (bezenmek)
Descendants
- Turkish: süslenmek
- → Armenian: սիւսլէնմիշ (siwslēnmiš)
Further reading
- Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “سوس”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 111
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “süslenmek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4399
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “سوسلنمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 700
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “سوسلنمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1062