قانجه‌لامق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From قانجه (kanca, “large hook”) +‎ ـلامق (-lamak, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

قانجه‌لامق • (kancalamak)

  1. (transitive) to hook, to grapple, catch or seize with a hook
  2. (transitive, figuratively) to grapple or seize with the bent fingers

Descendants

  • Turkish: kancalamak
  • → Armenian: խանճալամիշ (xančalamiš)

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.